- 1aB1/ˈselfɪʃ/自私的
Caring only about what you want, and not about what other people need or feel. People use this word to say that someone, or something they did, is wrong or .
示範例句 · Example
Amy, don't be selfish. Let the others have a turn.
逐字艾咪，不要自私。讓其他人輪一次。
「selfish」講的是「只想到自己，不管別人需要什麼、感覺怎麼樣」，而且說出口幾乎一定帶著責備的味道——它是在批評一個人或他做的事，不是中性的形容。可以想成 self（自己）加上 -ish（有一點…的味道），整個字就像一個人身上只剩下「自己」這個味道。跟 self-centred 很容易混：selfish 多半指「不肯分、不肯讓」的行為，self-centred 指「眼裡只有自己、沒注意到旁邊的人」的個性。
常見搭配
be selfish
很自私、只顧自己
to act in a way that thinks only of yourself
Don't be selfish — Sam has been waiting all morning.
selfish reasons
為了自己的理由、私心
reasons that are only about what you want for yourself
He agreed to go along for purely selfish reasons.
selfish behaviour
自私的行為
the way someone acts when they think only of themselves
The teacher talked to the class about selfish behaviour at lunchtime.
a selfish thing to do
很自私的一件事
an action that shows you thought only about yourself
Taking both umbrellas was a selfish thing to do.
selfish with (something)
在某樣東西上不肯分人
unwilling to share a particular thing
Ren is a bit selfish with his colour pencils.
purely selfish
純粹出於私心
completely about yourself, with no other reason
Her interest in the project was purely selfish.
意思相近
self-centredself-centeredegocentricself-servingegotisticalgreedy
core核心畫面
You can picture selfish as a person whose view stops at themselves: when they decide something, only their own wants are on the table, and what other people need or feel never enters the calculation. The word does not just describe that habit — it judges it. Calling an act selfish is saying it was wrong or .
同家族的字
比較級 more selfish最高級 most selfish
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
selfishadj/ˈsɛlf.ɪʃ/
- 1
Holding one's own self-interest as the standard for decision making.
- “We all have both a selfish separate self, and an Inner Being that is One with the Universal Spirit. In this sense, every human has a sort of ‘split personality’. We are all kind of what you call ‘schitzy’ with these two sides, these two people living within us. And they are in total opposition. The free will dictates which of these two sides will have its way in our life, at every given moment.”
- 2
Having excessive or exclusive regard and concern for one's own well-being, profit or pleasure, with little or no consideration for others.
- Take warning by my fate, and shun that flowery and bewitching path; for in its labyrinths the good, the gentle, the kind-hearted, and the benevolent, are too often lost; while the sordid and the selfish scarcely so much as run a hazard.
- The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. […] Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
- 3
video-gamesOf video game characters: relying on their own actions and capabilities to be effective in the game, rather than on other characters.
- With that said, there is a perk to Xiao being a selfish DPS. He plays like Razor where he needs to be out in the field more than 90 percent of the time. Compared to Diluc, Xiao is more independent when it comes to dealing damage.
- 4
biologynatural-sciencesRelated 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.
- Discoveries of selfish genetic elements often follow from the emergence of a selfish phenotype either in a cross between members of closely related species, or in crosses involving individuals from different isolated populations within a species.
- Through this hypothesized mechanism, a selfish virus would reduce the probability that other co-infecting genotypes contribute the expected share of their genes to the progeny.
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