usurious
常見例句
- Every debt he owed in the world, including the pawnshop, with its usurious interest, amounted to less than a hundred dollars.
他在世界上欠下的每一筆帳,包括高利貸的當(dāng)鋪債務(wù),加在一起也不到一百元。 - China’s efforts to tighten credit have starved the country’s small enterprises of badly needed finance, forcing them into the clutches of black-market lenders who charge usurious rates of interest.
過去一段時間內(nèi)緊縮信貸的努力已經(jīng)讓這個國家的中小企業(yè)們幾乎“斷糧”。 為了獲得亟需的資金,它們不得不自投羅網(wǎng)鉆進黑市放貸者們的高利貸陷阱中。 - To Mr Yunus and its other critics, the Mexican bank is no better than an old-fashioned loan shark, earning its huge profits by charging poor borrowers a usurious interest rate of at least 79% a year.
在尤納斯和其他一些批評人士看來,該行無異于舊時高利貸主,狂征暴斂,向窮人們放貸,年利率不低于79%。 - Venture funds, particularly those backing independent nonstudio films, often have usurious fees and meager returns.
FORBES: Teutonic Tinsel - As a result, private companies have been forced to borrow from underground finance companies at often usurious interest rates.
FORBES: Junk Bonds Come To China - Few private firms have access to capital at anything other than usurious rates.
ECONOMIST: China’s private surprise 返回 usurious