Selfishness
['selfɪʃnɪs] or ['sɛlfɪʃnɪs]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others.
欧内斯特整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self-preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without regarding those of others.
編輯:思朋斯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Undue love of self, self-interest, private interest, illiberality, meanness.
手打:西摩
例句/造句/用法:
- No, it is not selfishness or conceit, said he, answering, as was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Now pray, returned Richard, don't think me a heap of selfishness. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Their running was a selfishness. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- All the miseries and discontents of life he traces to insatiable selfishness. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- What is there but self, for selfishness to see behind it? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- How many suspicions of selfishness and indifference had she to encounter and obstinately overcome. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The event acquitted her of all the fancifulness, and all the selfishness of imaginary complaints. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- There was comfort also in Tom, who gradually regained his health, without regaining the thoughtlessness and selfishness of his previous habits. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Human natur', taking it i' th' lump, is nought but selfishness. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The whole of his behaviour, replied Elinor, from the beginning to the end of the affair, has been grounded on selfishness. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- It was this: Jarndyce, in common with most other men I have known, is the incarnation of selfishness. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Among the former, we may justly esteem our selfishness to be the most considerable. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- The boyish weakness of this speech, combined with its great selfishness, made it a poor one indeed. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The whole and sole conduct of the editors may be defined in one word, selfishness. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Muck their egotism and their selfishness and their selfishness and their egotism and their conceit and their treachery. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Amy was in a fair way to be spoiled, for everyone petted her, and her small vanities and selfishnesses were growing nicely. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
手打:谢莉