The idea is for people not to be selfish by keeping a book to gather dust on a shelf at home.

这样做是为了让人们不要自私，不要把书放在家里的书架上积灰尘。

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Tis the season to be selfish.

又到了自私的时候了。

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We all can be selfish and behave badly at times.

我们都是很自私的人，常常会表现得很糟糕。

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Now, egocentrism has a meaning in common English which means to be selfish.

自我中心这个词在如今的日常英语里,是自私的意思

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What this often--What this can be viewed as, as an extended version of selfish gene theory, which is that to the extent you're interconnected with other people you care about them more for purely selfish reasons.

其实我们可以把这个观点视为，自私基因理论的延伸，也就是说根据你和别人,互相联系的程度,你对他人的关心更多是因为自私的原因。

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