A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
自私
Selfish
Men tend to be selfish.
男人往往自私。
I'm a selfish, little pig of a man.
我是一个自私的小男人。
You have to be selfish to be an actor.
当演员必须自私。
I refuse to be crude and selfish in any way.
我拒绝以任何方式粗鲁和自私。
Strikers are egotists, selfish. We have to be.
罢工者是自私的自我主义者。我们必须这样。
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
建立在自私原则之上的荣耀是耻辱和罪恶。
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
法律之于自私的人,犹如鸟笼之于野兽。
I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.
我想我还在想怎么少自私一点。
It is hard even for the most selfish man to eat fish in the darkness.
即使是最自私的人也很难在黑暗中吃鱼。
Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.
没有孩子并不会使人自私;自私使人自私。
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
追求自身的利益,不是自私;只有忽视他人的利益,才是自私。
I'm not a selfish actor. I believe that it's a team effort. You're not in a scene by yourself.
我不是一个自私的演员。我相信这是一个团队的努力。你不是一个人在现场。
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It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past.
如果其他自私的国家不像过去那样干涉,它是可以重建的。
The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.
现行的自私利益和竞争原则已经到了极点;在这一过程中,它孤立了人类的心灵,钝化了人类最敏锐的感情,消灭了人类最慷慨的冲动和同情心。
Most of the time, the things that really change the world exist for something fundamentally selfish and then the world-changing ends up being a side-effect of that.
大多数时候,真正改变世界的东西存在的根本原因是自私,而改变世界最终只是自私的副作用。
In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.
几乎每段婚姻中都有一个自私的和一个不自私的伴侣。一个人总是提出要求,另一个人总是让步,这种模式很快就变得僵化了。
There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.
有很多自私的人是非常原创的,然后他们用那些纯粹的想法来提高自己,这是一个不真诚的举动。
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
当有那么多的人孤独到似乎是孤独的时候,一个人孤独是不可原谅的自私。