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/ˈselfɪʃ/
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 .
自私的
比較級 more selfish最高級 most selfish
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 .
可以想成一個人的視線停在自己身上：做決定時桌上只擺著自己想要的，別人需要什麼、感覺如何，根本沒被算進去。這個字不只是…更多收起
可以想成一個人的視線停在自己身上：做決定時桌上只擺著自己想要的，別人需要什麼、感覺如何，根本沒被算進去。這個字不只是描述那種傾向，它同時帶著批評——說某人 selfish、說某件事 a selfish decision，就是在說那樣做不對、不厚道，所以講出口時對方會聽成指責，不會聽成中性觀察。原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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/
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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.”
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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?
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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.
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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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。