Narrowly self-interested behaviour is ultimately self-defeating.

狭隘自私的行为最终会自拆台脚。

Fundamentally, we're self-interested.

从根本上说，我们是自利的。

But we are also strongly self-interested beings.

但同时我们也是极其利己的生物。

Why do analysts swallow this self-interested narrative?

为什么分析师们接受这种自私的叙述呢？

We're not even aware of how self-interested we are.

我们甚至不知道自己有多么地自利。

“This is the most self-interested thing we have ever done,” he said.

“这是我们从来没有做过的最自私自利的事情，”他说。

So what did Adam Smith mean by rational and self-interested behavior?

因此，亚当·斯密什么意思理性和自我利益的行为呢？

"This is the most self-interested thing we have ever done," he said.

“这是我们从来没有做过的最自私自利的事情，”他说。

All of which may be dismissed as the self-interested carping of fat cats.

所有的一切，都可能会被自私自利，吹毛求疵而又不讲信用的有钱有势之人所驳回。

If so, that makes the country's self-interested neighbours accessories after the fact.

如果是这样的话，如果这样的话，那使该国的自私的邻居们就是帮凶。

This stance has a superficial logic.And it may have a more self-interested rationale.

这一立场有一个表面的逻辑，也许还具有某种自圆其说的程式。

People are not purely self-interested. They care for others and observe social norms.

人类并非完全崇尚自我本位：他们关心他人并洞察社会规范；

Revisionist writers claimed that it was purely self-interested and its success overrated.

修正主义作家宣称此计划完全是自私自利而且它的成效被高估了。

Many lawyers and judges have dismissed media campaigns for changes in the law as self-interested.

许多律师和法官认为因修订法律而进行的媒体大战是以自我利益为其诉求的。

Both are anonymous, so from a purely self-interested perspective, there's no reason to share at all.

两者都是匿名的，因此，从纯粹利己的角度出发，没有分享的理由。

A trade organisation arguing for, say, weaker pollution controls is instantly seen as self-interested.

比如说，一个贸易组织如果要求降低污染控制标准，这个组织马上就会被认为是在谋私利。

"This is the most self-interested thing we have ever done," he said. "I'm thrilled that we can help others."

“这是我们做过最让我们得利的事了，”他说，“我很兴奋我们能帮助别人。”

The Big Four has the expertise, and ought to also have a ton of self-interested motivation to get this fixed.

四大会计师事务所拥有足够的技术和巨大动机来推动这一系统的实现。

In Georgia's enclaves, Russian forces have acted as self-interested troublemakers, not as neutral peacekeepers.

在格鲁吉亚属地，俄兵是自利的麻烦制造者而非中立的和平维护者。

The statistics, they say, are all lies, trumped up to generate attention (and grants) for self-interested organizations.

他们还说，数据都是骗人的，是那些自私自利的组织为了自身利益（获得关注或资金赞助）是捏造出来的。

Many wanted to freeze the EU’s budget, but the more indulgent (and the self-interested) accepted a compromise of a 2.9% rise.

不少国家希望冻结欧盟的预算，而一些较宽容的国家出于自身的利益采取了妥协结果，同意2.9%的增长。

Many wanted to freeze the EU's budget, but the more indulgent (and the self-interested) accepted a compromise of a 2.9% rise.

许多成员国本想冻结欧盟的预算方案，更多的成员国则表现出较为宽容的态度（或是出于自利），接受了一项折中方案，即预算增长2.9％。

At the same time, we may notice that generous people don't necessarily suffer more or flourish less than those who are more self-interested.

同时，我们可能注意到，慷慨的人不一定比较自私的人遭受的痛苦多，或者得到的幸福少。

Or is it just because I don't want to confront the fact that people are the way they are, which is to say fundamentally self-interested?

还是说仅仅是因为我不愿意相信人类就像他们说的那样，从根本上是自利的这个事实呢？

This wasn't a perfect strategy, or even a noble one, but it was supremely self-interested approach that ensured U.S. primacy for decades.

这不是什么完美的策略，甚至并不高尚。但却非常自利，确保了美国数十年的国际领先地位。

If "everybody is like that" - if everybody must be like that - we need not feel guilty about our own self-interested behavior or try to change it.

如果“每个人都像那样”——如果每个人都一定像那样——我们不需要为自己的自私行为感到自责，也不需要努力去改变它。