Chayka argues that minimalism is conflated with self-optimization.

洽卡认为，极简主义与自我优化已被混为一谈。

Should we be surprised to be living in a world ruled by egomaniacs?

我们应该为生活在一个极端自我主义者治下的世界而感到惊讶吗？

Silver-haired egoists, brutal acts of revenge and spectacular dragon pyrotechnics make for engrossing TV.

银发的自我主义者、残酷的复仇行为、壮观的龙火焰特效让这部剧集引人入胜。

Egos do not play any part in teamwork.

自我主义在团队合作中没有立足之地。

They retain their egotism, and add to it many other egos.

他们留了自我主义，又增添了许多其他的自我。

To describe Gen Z as hopelessly self-involved, as Ms Shrier does, ignores recent history.

像施里尔女士那样将 Z 世代描述为无可救药的自我中心主义者，忽视了近期的历史。

The other explanation is Hollywood's liberal self-image.

另一种解释是好莱坞的自由主义自我形象。

And he thinks it really implies that fellow-feeling is just a form of egoism.

他认为这实际上意味着同情只是自我主义的一种形式。

This comparison idea reduces fellow-feeling to egoism.

这种比较观念将同情降格为自我主义。

False, unnecessary poverty—but it was the expression of a kind of philosophy, self-humiliation, stoicism.

虚假的、不必要的贫困——但它是一种哲学、自我羞辱主义的表达。

The presumptive beneficiary would just be an instrument for the altruist's self-aggrandizement.

推定受益人只不过是利他主义者自我扩张的工具。

Well, I guess because it embodies the enormous egoism of this individual.

嗯，我想大概是因为它体现了这个人的巨大自我主义。

He chooses some abstract idea, like Envy, or Egotism, or Reason and Imagination.

他选择了一些抽象的想法，比如嫉妒、自我主义、理性与想象力。

Individualism, to the contrary, is self-referential.

相反， 个人主义是自我参照的。

Ethics is only possible out of egoism.

伦理学只能建立在自我主义之上。

Self-centeredness might even take the form of self-absorption or solipsism, as in the case of autism.

自我中心主义甚至可能表现为自我沉溺或唯我论，正如自闭症的情况所示。

The key is that his future was afrocentric – linking his futuristic self, to ancient forbears in Egypt.

关键是他的未来是以非洲为中心的——将他未来主义的自我与埃及的古代祖先联系起来。

If I could make him see his power of giving happiness as a new outlet for his monstrous egotism!

如果我能让他看到他给予幸福的力量，以此作为他可怕的自我中心主义的新出路！

Egoism is therefore the outcome of a closed heart and mind, not a cause of this disposition.

因此，自我主义是心灵思想封闭的结果，而非这种倾向的原因。

Without dogmatism or self-assertion, he seemed always to be fully in sight, a figure that completely filled a well-defined space.

没有教条主义或自我主张， 他似乎总是完全在视线范围内， 一个完全充满定义明确的空间的人物。