self·ish /ˈsɛlfɪʃ/
(a.)自私的,利己主義的,自我中心的
self·ish /ˈsɛlfɪʃ/ 形容詞
Self·ish a.
1. Caring supremely or unduly for one's self; regarding one's own comfort, advantage, etc., in disregard, or at the expense, of those of others.
They judge of things according to their own private appetites and selfish passions. --Cudworth.
In that throng of selfish hearts untrue. --Keble.
2. Ethics Believing or teaching that the chief motives of human action are derived from love of self.
Hobbes and the selfish school of philosophers. --Fleming.
◄ ►
selfish
adj : concerned chiefly or only with yourself; "Selfish men
were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the
sacred cause of civil rights"- Maria Weston Chapman
[ant: unselfish]