英:['selfɪʃlɪ]
美:[ˈsɛlfɪʃlɪ]
英:['selfɪʃlɪ]
美:[ˈsɛlfɪʃlɪ]
词根:self
adj.self 同一的
selfish 自私的;利己主义的
selfless 无私的;不考虑自己的
adv.selflessly 无私地;忘我地
n.self 自己,自我;本质;私心
selfishness 自私自利;自我中心;任性
selflessness 无私;忘我
vi.self 自花授精
vt.self 使自花授精;使近亲繁殖
adverb
in a selfish way … he selfishly hogged attention for his injury …—Louise Erdrich He finds support for his intuition from game theory, which says that if everyone in a game acts selfishly, everyone suffers.—Gina Kolata
acting/behaving selfishly
The first known use of selfishly was in 1645
1 You'll become fearlessly, selfishly public-spirited, determined to make the world better in order to protect this mysterious larval being which appears to be your heart, now outside of your body forever.
2 From the scant information you’ve given, it does sound as if Bride is being needlessly, and selfishly, stubborn in her insistence on the double escort.
3 It was also, selfishly, knowing that this could be my last restaurant meal indoors for some time.
4 Why ask things so selfishly?
为什么你每次都如此自私地只为自己求?
5 Every fight scenario either causes Miguel embarrassment or ends with him selfishly alienating his friends.
6 And as I left the National that night — considering the treasures that were to come in the wake of these early efforts — I found myself thinking selfishly, “Thank God they didn’t.”
7 And selfishly, for those of us who serve as writer-mentors, the benefits are enormous and fulfilling.
8 Before its midpoint, the film begins its retreat from the moral questions raised by Jim’s selfishly dragging Aurora into his personal hell.
9 They are about selfishly disregarding the medical realities of pregnant women and their babies – not all of whom are healthy and viable.
10 At 24, in the same amount of time it took Lennon and McCartney to become selfishly middle-class, Todd Rundgren is out the other side of the soloist's dilemma.
11 Over time, I learned that a person can be uncomfortable with the transaction, but still wildly, selfishly grateful for it.
12 They who work selfishly for results are miserable.
13 JG: We also never get to hang out anymore, so it’s selfishly fun, because I can hang out with her.
14 I'm so personally, selfishly, sentimentally satisfied that she's happy with it.
15 “You can see them in a club with twelve people, and I selfishly want to keep it small, keep it from getting big.”
16 When others tried to sleep there, I was not as generous as the elderly widow had been but selfishly chased them away.
17 Such activities, he said, “quite selfishly” allow him to pursue nonsinging interests.
18 They are both vast competing sets of information, all selfishly getting copied whenever and however they can.
他们都是广泛竞争的信息组,都尽其所能随时地“自私”地进行复制。
19 “I just regret that I didn’t pay more attention. If I had, maybe I would have known what you were going through. I acted selfishly.”
20 I have never known him to behave any other than selfishly.
我就没见过他不自私的时候.