self-indulgence

基本解釋

This is no time for self-indulgence.
沒有光陰可以再自我放縱了。
More important, they believed, was public spiritedness — a system of habits and attitudes that would check egotism and self-indulgence.
更重要的制度，他們認(rèn)為是公益精神---一種檢驗自我主義和自我放縱的習(xí)慣和態(tài)度的思想體系。
Foreigners, who currently hold around half of US Treasury debt, up from 18% in 1990, will not finance Uncle Sam’s self-indulgence for ever.
外國債權(quán)人持有美國財政部發(fā)行的國債比例從1990年的18%上漲到今天近半數(shù)，可他們不會永遠(yuǎn)為山姆大叔的放縱買單。

He likened Charleston, South Carolina though this was in the 1780s he likened Charleston, South Carolina to what he called, quote, "The barbarous institutions and traits, especially slavery, the self-indulgence of the planters" and then he concludes "Just like Lima, Peru."
他把南卡羅來納的查爾斯頓比作,那是在十八世紀(jì)八十年代,他把南卡羅來納的查爾斯頓比作,"野蠻的制度和習(xí)性,尤其是奴隸制,種植園主們醉生夢死,自我放縱",然后他總結(jié)道,"就像秘魯?shù)睦R一樣"
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But I always have to temper and monitor the indulgence so that it doesn't become self-indulgence.
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Self-indulgence is the act of allowing yourself to have or do the things that you enjoy very much.