Selfishness

(noun.) stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others.

欧内斯特整理

• No, it is not selfishness or conceit, said he, answering, as was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Now pray, returned Richard, don't think me a heap of selfishness. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Their running was a selfishness. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• All the miseries and discontents of life he traces to insatiable selfishness. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• What is there but self, for selfishness to see behind it? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• How many suspicions of selfishness and indifference had she to encounter and obstinately overcome. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The event acquitted her of all the fancifulness, and all the selfishness of imaginary complaints. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• There was comfort also in Tom, who gradually regained his health, without regaining the thoughtlessness and selfishness of his previous habits. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Human natur', taking it i' th' lump, is nought but selfishness. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The whole of his behaviour, replied Elinor, from the beginning to the end of the affair, has been grounded on selfishness. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• It was this: Jarndyce, in common with most other men I have known, is the incarnation of selfishness. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Among the former, we may justly esteem our selfishness to be the most considerable. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The boyish weakness of this speech, combined with its great selfishness, made it a poor one indeed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The whole and sole conduct of the editors may be defined in one word, selfishness. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Muck their egotism and their selfishness and their selfishness and their egotism and their conceit and their treachery. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Amy was in a fair way to be spoiled, for everyone petted her, and her small vanities and selfishnesses were growing nicely. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.

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