Maybe, very often people do have self-interested motives when they act.

或许多数情况下人们行动时确实有利己动机
Kant wouldn't dispute that

康德并不否定这一点
but what Kant is saying is that in so far as we act morally,

但康德认为就我们的道德行为而言
that is in so far as our actions have moral worth,

也就是我们具有道德价值的行为
what confers moral worth is precisely

赋予这一道德价值的正是
our capacity to rise above self-interest and prudence and inclination

我们超脱于自身利益审慎爱好的能力
and to act out of duty.

以及出于职责而行动的能力
Some years ago I read about a spelling bee

几年前我读过一篇拼字比赛的报道
and there was a young man who was declared the winner of the spelling bee,

有这么一个获得拼字冠军的年轻人
a kid named Andrew, 13 years old.

一个十三岁的小孩安德鲁
The winning word, the word that he was able to spell,

让他获胜的词那个他能拼出来的词
was "Echolalia."

是"Echolalia"