An adult emotion was being born, stronger than her vanity or her willful selfishness.

一种成年人的情感正在诞生，它比她的虚荣心或固执的自私心更为强大。

I, um... I kinda wanted you to take me.

我 我私心想着你能带我去是最好了。

And there'd be some extra little something when you said that, right?

当然你这么说的时候其实还有一些小小的私心 对吧？

Selfishness, monopoly, is its very soul, and to communicate to others part of this love were to destroy its essence, to annihilate this chain of straw.

其本质是私心、垄断。这种的些许表现也是对的亵渎，使脆如纤草的泯灭殆尽。

I know, and I know I said a mother's love was worth more than all they had to give, but I said it for me, not for him.

我知道，我也知道我说过母胜过他们能给他的一切，但那是我的私心，不是为他。

Indeed, of the two, she seemed to think poverty a lighter burden than self-reproach; but I privately doubted if the directors would agree with her.

的确，在这两者之中，她似乎认为相比于自责，贫穷不是那么沉重的负担；但我私心怀疑董事们是否和她想法相同。

For about US$20, you can get a ground coffee bath; that is, they " boil" you in coffee.

大约美金，你就可以洗一个研磨咖啡澡：也就是说，他们会私心你放在咖啡里“煮”。

So, a hockey referee, a basketball referee, a football referee - they need to be disinterested; unbiased.

因此说，曲棍球裁判、篮球裁判、足球裁判—他们需要公立执法；没有私心的。

Though the hajj is primarily a religious journey, the siblings have other, personal hopes for it.

虽然麦加朝圣主要是一次宗教之旅，但兄妹俩还有其他私心。

And as I'm saying that, I'm hoping you're from Vietnam.

我这样说 其实私心希望你是越南来的。

A bad dad who has an ego and an agenda.

一个自大且有私心的烂爹。

There's a related expression, which is " to have an axe to grind" (grind).

有一个相关的表达，那就是“怀有私心”（轴要磨）。

We already admitted to you that this is partially selfish.

我们已经向您坦承，这多少带点私心。

And selfishly, I grew up playing baseball.

出于私心，我从小就开始打棒球。

And of course, selfishly, there's so many people me and Allie want to talk to.

当然，从私心来讲，我和艾莉有许多想与之交谈的人。

But I know that people also say things, you know, for their own personal reasons.

但我知道，人们说这些话，你也明白，往往出于个人的私心。

And particularly, selfishly, that's where our type of capital could come in and play.

尤其是从私心角度来说，那正是我们的资本可以介入并发挥作用的地方。

And this is, and this is just completely selfish.

这完全是出于私心。

It requires an enormous amount of trust that the other person is approaching everything in good faith, that there isn't ego involved, that decisions aren't being made for any reason other than what will be best for the show.

这需要极大的信任， 相信对方是以善意处理一切，没有掺杂个人私心， 所作决定完全出于对剧集最佳利益的考量。

So a couple of things I want to dig on on that, and I'm asking this Almost selfishly, I'm curious now what, I know what I like when I read content and I agree with you.

因此，我想深入探讨几点，几乎出于私心提问，现在我很好奇， 我知道自己喜欢阅读什么样的内容， 并且同意你的观点， 它必须与读者产生共鸣。