They sought to tame human selfishness.

都寻求驯化人类自私的心理。

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。

Well, in our culture, selfishness and immorality have essentially become synonymous.

在我们的文化中自私和不道德成同义词。

It was impossible to make him understand that one might be outraged by his callous selfishness.

你根本无法解，的冷酷、自私能叫人气得火冒三丈。

And now your selfishness has killed Flora.

现在你的自私杀佛罗娜。

Selfishness was a facet of his character that we seldom saw before.

我们以前很少看到个中自私的一面。

As for my mother, she looked very upset and apologized for her selfishness.

至于我母亲 她看起来很难过 并为她的自私道歉。

The Pope urged Christians to reject, what he called, the logic of selfishness.

教皇敦徒们放弃所谓的自私主义逻辑。

The priority may then be to rediscover our latent reserves of selfishness.

当务之急可能是重新发掘我们潜在的自私。

I can tell you why he left his wife-from pure selfishness and nothing else whatever.

“我可以告诉你为什么抛弃自己的妻子——纯粹是出于自私，再也没有其理由。”

There is a bit of monstrosity in everyone, she adds, especially artists, for whom bloody-minded selfishness is useful.

她补充说，每个人都有一点兽，特别是艺术家，故意与人为敌的自私对们来说是有用的。

Basketball is a opposite of selfishness, basketball is solely about giving and sharing and caring for one another.

篮球是自私的对立面，篮球就是相互给予、分享和关心。

Selfishness in its most basic form is thinking of yourself and that's what a full-on people pleaser does.

自私最本的表现形式是为自己着想，这就是一个彻头彻尾的取悦人者所做的事情。

So it's a challenge to your impatience and to your selfishness to be engaged without making it about you.

所以这对你的耐心，对你想谈论自己的自私心态，以及投入不涉及你的对话，都是一种挑战。

" I say you're not going! I'm tired of your eternal selfishness" !

“我说你不去！我厌倦你永远的自私” ！

You never think of anything but your own selfishness.

除你自己的自私，你什么都不想。

" Is that anything more than plain selfishness" ?

“这不就是单纯的自私吗”？

A lack of selfishness may be the fastest route to turning us into ineffective, embittered and ultimately highly disagreeable people.

缺乏自私可能会迅速地让我们变得效率低下、怨气冲天，最终变成一个极其讨厌的人。

Selfishness and indolence usually disrupted the best of them.

自私和懒惰通常会破坏们中最好的。

How could he imagine narrowness, selfishness, hardness in her?

怎么能想象她的狭隘、自私和冷酷？