Selfish

(adj.) concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others; 'Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights'- Maria Weston Chapman .

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• But with my three daughters, Emma, Jane, and Caroline--and my aged father--I cannot afford to be selfish. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• But I suppose I am a selfish fool. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Commonplace young ladies can be quite as hard as commonplace young gentlemen--quite as worldly and selfish. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• As a selfish man will impoverish his family and often bring them to ruin, so a selfish king brings ruin on his people and often plunges them into war. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• All children were so: a little anxious for novelty, and--no, not selfish, but self-willed. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Again I tell you it is not the insignificant private individual--the mere man, with the man's selfish senses--I wish to mate: it is the missionary. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• He has too much real feeling to address any woman on the haphazard of selfish passion. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• She is a selfish, hypocritical woman, and I have no opinion of her. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• But if such selfish maxims hurt you, Then live your life of silly virtue. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• And she settled herself, resting against my arm--resting gently, not with honest Mistress Fanshawe's fatiguing and selfish weight. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• As to the settlement of poor papa's affairs, my interest in that is not very selfish. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• I suppose it is partly our fault that they are selfish, and act like spoiled children; but I've talked to St. Clare till I am tired. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• I am sure he will put you up to a plan of making that vile, shabby, selfish Duke of Beaufort treat you better. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Then, as usual, she felt ashamed of her selfish thoughts and prayed inwardly to be strengthened to do her duty. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• He concluded that the foreign mill-owner was a selfish, an unfeeling, and, he thought, too, a foolish man. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Am I a nasty, cruel, selfish, bad mama? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish--read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Mammy is the best I ever knew, said Marie; and yet Mammy, now, is selfish--dreadfully selfish; it's the fault of the whole race. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• St. Clare means well, I am bound to believe; but men are constitutionally selfish and inconsiderate to woman. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Unfeeling, selfish girl! 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• All men, taken singly, are more or less selfish; and taken in bodies, they are intensely so. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• You two are restless, meddling, impudent scoundrels, whose chief motive-principle is a selfish ambition, as dangerous as it is puerile. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• But between ourselves, Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a petty way as ever came before me. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Fred Lamb's passion increased daily; but I discovered, on our arrival in London, that he was a voluptuary, somewhat worldly and selfish. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• You were exacting, proud, punctilious, selfish. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• In that long absence of ten years, the most selfish will think about home and early ties. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• What a face she had--so comely--so insolent and so selfish! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• He is the most fearful of giving pain, of wounding expectation, and the most incapable of being selfish, of any body I ever saw. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• Those of a tradesman, returned the rector--narrow, selfish, and unpatriotic. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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