egotism

英 [ˈɛgəʊtɪzm]

美 [ˈigəˌtɪzəm]

n.  自我中心; 利己主义; 自私自利

TEM8医学

BNC.33329 / COCA.27283

柯林斯词典

• 自我中心;利己主义;自私自利
  Egotismis the quality of being egotistic.

英英释义

noun

• an exaggerated opinion of your own importance
  Synonym:self-importanceswelled head
• an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others
  Synonym:egoself-importance

双语例句

• In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.
  在本书中“我”会被保留。这点对个人中心的推崇是本书的主要不同。
• Of all things, banish the egotism out of your conversation.
  谈话时，首先要排除以自我为中心。
• I've always been a bit confused about self and egotism because I instinctively felt both were barriers to understanding.
  对于自我及自负，我总是有些迷惑，因为我直觉上认为它们都会妨碍理解。
• "it is an interesting question," said Lord henry, who found an exquisite pleasure in playing on the lad's unconscious egotism.
  “这是个有趣的问题，”亨利勋爵说，他觉得嘲弄这孩子不自觉的自负能获得极大的乐趣。
• Still others attribute it to indiscriminate adoption of Western values and "bourgeois ideas" of materialism and egotism.
  还有一些人把较多的离婚归结为滥用西方的价值观和物质主义的“资产阶级思想”和自私等。
• For those aggressive acts that do involve the perpetrators 'self-regard, we believe that threatened egotism is crucial.
  只要暴力事件涉及了犯案人的自尊，我们相信「自尊受威胁」是关键。
• Liking wasn't in my egotism first, do I still have more busy affair!
  好了，先不在这里自我吹嘘了，我还有更忙的事情呢！
• Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not egotism, it's a necessary precondition to happiness and success.
  重视自己的独特性并不是自负，而是获得快乐和成功的先决条件。
• What Jeanie least liked in the tone of the letter was a smothered degree of egotism.
  珍妮最不高兴的是信中隐约可见的唯我独尊的口吻。
• Egotism produces disrespectful attitudes toward others.
  自我中心会产生对别人不尊重的态度。