功利性竞争

English translation: acquisitive competition

16:22 Mar 27, 2007

Chinese to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. / 自觉排队日

Chinese term or phrase: 功利性竞争

如果看看那些不排队现象，不正可以看到太多直接的急躁的功利性竞争，而少掉了那份淡定的从容和互谅吗？

Denyce Seow KudoZ activity Questions: 1852 (9 open) (54 closed without grading) Answers: 1534 Singapore
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English translation:acquisitive competition

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Shang
China
Local time: 08:21

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acquisitive competition

Shang

4 +1

material gain-oriented competition

Jian Zhang

egoistic competition

Ozethai

Interest-oriented competition

ats333

results-oriented competition

franksf

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peer agreement (net): +4

acquisitive competition

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Shang
China
Local time: 08:21
Works in field
Native speaker of: Chinese
PRO pts in category: 18

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32 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

material gain-oriented competition

Explanation:
This is negative-toned. For the note (- 在以前的家庭，父亲出外谋生，要面对艰难险阻、残酷竞争、尔虞我诈，父亲影响孩子的，更多是努力，勇于竞争等功利性的一面。), however, it is positive. So we may want to use "competition for achievements."

Jian Zhang
United States
Local time: 18:21
Native speaker of:

Chinese

3 hrs confidence:

egoistic competition

Explanation:
JSTOR: Kaleidoscope Economies: The Processes of Cooperation ...
Thus cooperation that sub- sumes competition and control encourages specialization and transactions. Furthermore, the maintenance of egoistic competition ...
links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0004-5608(199609)86%3A3%3C481%3AKETPOC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-P - Similar pages
JSTOR: The Reconstruction of Humanity.
Is human nature essentially altruistic or egoistic? ... (2) a deflation of egoistic competition both ideologically and practically so that men will be free ...
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Kaleidoscope Economies: The Processes Cooperation, Competition ...
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the maintenance of egoistic competition and. the concession of control prevent cooperation. from degrading into the collusion that Axelrod ...
www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-8306.1996.... - Similar pages
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David Pizarro, Nothing More than Feelings? The Role of Emotions in ...
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egoistic competition, as the keystone of species development. Kropotkin sug-. gested that sociability, the desire of members of a species to be in ...
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Sydney Hook: Karl Marx and Moses Hess (1934)
“The problem of the elimination of national hate is intimately bound up with the problem of egoistic competition. International war cannot cease until ...
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CONFLICT AND SOCIAL DISTANCE: SAME AND OTHER;<BR> SIMILARITY AND ...
Fourth, antagonism is generated by similarity if (a) values such as land, status, or food are scarce and the norms are permeated by an egoistic competition ...
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American Renaissance
In order to understand whites, one must recognize that much of their apparently altruistic behavior is actually a form of egoistic competition. ...
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non serviam #12
... "ideal society is the union of egoists, in which peaceful egoistic competition would replace the state and society" (a piece of doubtful extrapolation). ...
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Anarchist and Radical Texts/Municipal Dreams
Some of the possible corrupting influences of large assemblies (encouragement of egoistic competition, undue influence by power-seeking personalities, etc. ...
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DAVID HITCHCOCK
To appreciate the just-mentioned conception of competition, it is helpful ... rather than Darwinian egoistic competition was the key to species development; ...
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In other words, compete for your own interest. Never mind about the others. The opposite is altruistic or win-win competition, I think.

Ozethai
Australia
Local time: 10:21
Native speaker of:

Thai,

Chinese
PRO pts in category: 8

4 hrs confidence:

results-oriented competition

Explanation:
USSF Advocating No Results For U12 And Below | League AdministrationAs a parent I think my kids are ready to handle the pressures of results oriented competition when they turn 7 or 8. Maybe that’s just me. ...
onthepitch.org/2006/05/11/usys-advocating-no-results-for-u12-and-below/ - 61k - Cached - Similar pages

Sullivan Creative : NewsThe NEDMA Awards is a results-oriented competition that recognizes creative and strategic achievement by New England advertisers in all direct marketing ...
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Fraser Institute - Rewarding University Professors: A Performance ...6) Sabbaticals should not be automatic, but awarded in a system of unrestricted results-oriented competition. 7) Individual ability, not pay equity, ...
www.fraserinstitute.ca/shared/readmore.asp?sNav=pb&id=163 - 30k - Cached - Similar pages

Transforming Connecticut Higher Education: An Agenda for ...Vigorous intellectual, results-oriented competition between the publics and independents should be encouraged. Connecticut institutions of higher education ...
www.ctdhe.org/info/oldreports/rptTransform.htm - 35k - Cached - Similar pages

franksf
Native speaker of:

English,

Chinese
PRO pts in category: 4

14 hrs confidence:

Interest-oriented competition

Explanation:
Agree with "Jian Zhang" that "This is negative-toned." However, we also accept that we are all self-interested in face of the competition in a free market, market economy.

ats333
Canada
Local time: 17:21
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Chinese
PRO pts in category: 4

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