Examples of using Self-interested in English and their translations into Chinese
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Thus Louis XIII had a real liking for Treville- a royal liking, a self-interested liking, it is true, but still a liking.
The hyperbole around AI largely stems from its promotion by tech-evangelists and self-interested investors.
Their idea is that governance- public or corporate- is driven by the self-interested effort of leaders to acquire and keep their power.
Thus, von Mises demonstrated that capitalism is an economic system rationally planned by the combined, self-interested efforts of all who participate in it.
In the standard model, design goals are specified in terms of agent preferences on outcomes, but these preferences are private and the agents are self-interested.
The international community has therefore a self-interested obligation to help Africa emerge from its current predicament.
America's rationale in promoting democratization in the Muslim world is both altruistic and self-interested.
That doesn't seem terribly shocking-- although it's controversial for a lot of people-- that we are self-interested.
However, behaviour can also be regarded as"opportunist" by scholars without any particular moral evaluation being made or implied(simply as a type of self-interested behaviour).
Democratic leaders immediately insisted the result was illegitimate, the product of a self-interested cover-up by Republicans, and promised to continue their investigations of Trump.
Real men are supposed to be self-interested, competitive, non-emotional, strong(with no insecurities at all), and able to deal with their emotional problems without help.
We're told that because we are greedy, self-interested animals, an economic system must reward greedy, self-interested behavior if we are to thrive economically.
The same applies to girls but not as much- they can care a little more about themselves without being unattractively self-interested, because they're naturally prettier.
Right action is entirely self-interested action.
Of course the United States is self-interested.
The treaty bodies tended to interpret the conventions in a self-interested way.
The structural trends of the world demand a more self-interested US over time.
There is a self-interested case for the formulation of global safety standards, for example.
The new politics will listen to scientific and technological experts, not self-interested business leaders and narcissistic politicians.
And there will also of course be self-interested critics who have a vested interest in the traditional[way].