To sum up: a system of conservation based solely on economic self-interest is hopelessly lopsided.

一个只基于经济利己主义的环境保护度是百分之百不公平的。

An individualist might be a rugged John Wayne, a pioneer like Amy Johnson, a creative innovator like Kate Bush, or an entrepreneur like Richard Branson.

利己主义者这样的人可能是粗犷的约翰·韦恩（美国演员），像艾米·约翰逊（英国女飞行员）那样的先驱，像凯特·布什（英国歌星）那样的创意创新者，或者像理查德·布兰森那样的企业家。

The grassroots, in short, are cheerful for alarmingly self-regarding reasons.

总之，基层会因其惊人的利己主义而开心。

We have allowed our fear of boundless egoism to blind us to the importance of developing faith in ourselves.

我们让对的利己主义的恐惧蒙蔽了我们的双眼，使我们看不到对培养自己的信念的重性。

And much more like implicit egotism.

这更像是内隐的利己主义。

We're really asking people to have intelligent self-interest.

我们实际上是人们拥有明智的利己主义。

There is no space left on earth for egoism.

地球上没有利己主义的空间。

Or the attempt to reduce everything to egoism.

或将一切归结为利己主义的尝试。

Nor was this mere hateful egotism on his part.

这也不仅仅是他可恶的利己主义。

What is individuality but the expression of our egoism?

什么是个性而不是我们利己主义的表现？

He was regarded by the friends of the Union as rather a comical personage — a favorite subject for Punch to laugh at — with a bitter tongue and a mind enfeebled even more than common by the political epidemic of egotism.

联盟的朋友们认为他是一个相当滑稽的人物——潘趣最喜欢嘲笑的对象——嘴巴尖刻，思想因利己主义的政治流行病而更加虚弱。

He knew what that common cause was, and at the time took no interest in it whatever, but from a feeling of fellowship and egoism gave the money, that it might not be thought that he was afraid.

他知道那个共同的事业是什么，当时对它一点兴趣也没有，但出于友谊和利己主义的感觉，他给了钱，这样人们就不会认为他害怕了。

Arthur's, as you know, was a loving nature. Deeds of kindness were as easy to him as a bad habit: they were the common issue of his weaknesses and good qualities, of his egoism and his sympathy.

亚瑟，如你所知，是一个充满爱心的人。善行对他来说就像养成坏习惯一样容易：它们是他的弱点和优良品质、他的利己主义和他的同情心的共同问题。

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

有一种嫉妒需很少的火：它几乎不是一种激情，而是一种不安的利己主义阴暗潮湿的沮丧中滋生的枯萎病。

Let us stop for a moment to remind ourselves what these advantages are. They are partly advantages of efficiency-the advantages of decentralisation and of the play of self-interest.

让我们停下来提醒自己这些优势是什么。它们一定程度上是效率的优势——权力下放和利己主义的优势。

Too vast a love in the opinion of some; and so free from human egoism that it wastes itself in the void.

有些人认为爱太大了； 如此摆脱了人类的利己主义， 以至于它虚中浪费了自己。

In his closest meditations the life-long habit of Mr. Bulstrode's mind clad his most egoistic terrors in doctrinal references to superhuman ends.

他最近的沉思中，布尔斯特罗德先生终生的思想习惯使他最利己主义的恐惧笼罩对超人目的的教义引用中。

This did not require all employers to have enlightened self-interest.

这并不所有雇主都具有开明的利己主义。

" He used to say that with this power of improving they might in time be anything, and without it in time they would be nothing." Imperturbable, indefatigable, daily increasing in sturdy self-assurance, he has the gift of the egoist.

“他曾经说过，有了这种改进的力量，他们迟早会成为一切，而没有这种力量，他们最终将一所有。”他镇定自若，不知疲倦，自信心与日俱增，具有利己主义的天赋。

It was not wonderful that, in spite of her small instruction, her judgment in this matter was truer than his: for she looked with unbiassed comparison and healthy sense at probabilities on which he had risked all his egoism.

尽管她作了些小小的指示，但她这件事上的判断却比他更真实，这并不奇怪：因为她以公正的比较和健康的理智来看待他冒着所有利己主义风险的可能性。