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单词 selfless
释义
selflessself‧less /ˈselfləs/ adjective Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • He dedicated his entire life to selfless service to his country.
  • The idea of the selfless, self-sacrificing mother is not one that appeals to most women these days.
  • We must remember the selfless sacrifice of our soldiers.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Are you selfless, or sensitive?
  • But let us not forget that he gave his life in an act of selfless devotion to the race.
  • Her instants of selfless love, so focused upon me, are balm for my abraded ego.
  • It was a genuinely selfless act, which I recount only because at the time it seemed so incredible.
  • King Vessantara, being selfless, gave the elephant away without a second thought.
  • She is selfless in religious commitment, yet delights in displaying herself in print as a spiritual heroine.
  • The new clergy houses were of a quite different, selfless and holy Gothic architecture.
  • They appealed to the selfless moral and ethical standards we like to believe we possess.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatornot selfish
· She is an outgoing, unselfish, and loving person.· It's a good team - they listen to the coaching and they're unselfish with the ball.· Abernathy was a man of great courage and an unselfish dedication to a just cause.
caring only about other people's needs, not your own, and never behaving selfishly: · The idea of the selfless, self-sacrificing mother is not one that appeals to most women these days.selfless devotion/sacrifice/concern etc: · We must remember the selfless sacrifice of our soldiers.
sincerely concerned about other people and willing to help them or give money to them if they need it, without trying to get any advantage for yourself: · You can't expect a large corporation to be altruistic.· Companies that donate books or equipment to schools that collect their tokens are not being entirely altruistic - after all, you have to buy the products to get the tokens.
caring about other people more than about yourself – used to show approval:  selfless devotion to their workselflessly adverbselflessness noun [uncountable]
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