Egoism

(noun.) concern for your own interests and welfare.

(noun.) (ethics) the theory that the pursuit of your own welfare in the basis of morality.

整理:塔尼娅

• 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. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Most of the remainder of children's alleged native egoism is simply an egoism which runs counter to an adult's egoism. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The facts which are cited in support of the alleged pure egoism of children really show the intensity and directness with which they go to their mark. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• I tell you, you want love to administer to your egoism, to subserve you. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Selden felt an inner start; but it was only the last quiver of his egoism. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• The scratches are events, and the candle is the egoism of any person now absent--of Miss Vincy, for example. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

整理:贾丝廷