I am not a fool, and I can understand that sometimes people can have self interest when choosing friends.

我不是一个傻瓜 我能理解人们有时在选择朋友的时候会有自己的兴趣。

She has urged legislators to sacrifice their self interest and reconsider the proposal, which would offer the country some hope of reconciliation.

她敦促立法者牺牲自己的利益，重新考虑这项提案，这将给国家带来一些和解的希望。

These have a whiff of self interest about them: they are the kind of studies that get press released but not peer reviewed.

这些研究常常会公之于众但并不进行同行审议。

Perhaps in the end, it is our self interest that will save the animals.

也许最终 拯救动物的是我们自己的利益。

Each state would be better served if no one state would give in but ultimately each state is guided by their own self interest.

如果没有一个国家愿意让步，每个州都会得到更好的服务，但最终每个国家都受到自身利益的引导。

Not short term communities of self interest made up of “people like us”, but awkward, diverse, grace filled communities, established for the long term.

不是由“跟我一样的人”组成的短暂的利益团体，而是长期的，尴尬的，多样化的人组成的团体。

So individually, these cases can be altruistic, but in the long run they're doing it for their own self interest.

因此，就个人而言，这些案例可能是无私的，但从长远来看，他们这样做是为了自己的利益。

Friend of my soul, this is terrible, dismaying: it makes one's heart sink, it withers vital energy ... Dear being, I am thine again; thy happiness shall again predominaute over this fleeting tribute to self interest.

我心灵的知己，这太可怕，太令人沮丧了。我的心为之一沉，锐气消磨殆尽… … 亲爱的人儿，我又是你的了，你的幸福又将压倒我这短暂的孤芳自赏。