selfish

B1 CET-4 高中 FREQ #3023 ★★☆☆☆

a. 自私的, 利己主义的, 自我中心的

发音

US /ˈsɛlf.ɪʃ/

词形变化

more selfish 比较级 selfisher selfishest selfisher 比较级 most selfish 最高级 selfishest 最高级

别名

selvish

教材释义与例句

形容词

自私的;利己主义的

caring only about yourself and not about other people – used to show disapproval

How can you be so selfish?

你怎能这样自私?

selfish behaviour

自私的行为

释义与例句

adj. B1
  1. 1.

    Holding one's own self-interest as the standard for decision making.

    自私

  2. 2.

    Having excessive or exclusive regard and concern for one's own well-being, profit or pleasure, with little or no consideration for others.

  3. 3.

    Of video game characters: relying on their own actions and capabilities to be effective in the game, rather than on other characters.

    游戏
  4. 4.

    Related to or equivalent to a selfish gene; best understood as existing to preserve and replicate itself in competition with other entities at the same level of existence, rather than at the level of the individual or population containing it.

    生物

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词源

From self + -ish. Compare Danish selvisk (“selfish”), Swedish självisk (“selfish”).

来源:wiktionary