usurious

释义

adj.

进行高利剥削的, 高利贷的

adj.

高利贷的

adj.

高利的； 高利贷的

在例句中理解 3 句

1. These companies, cut off from bank loans at reasonable rates of interest, had turned instead to supposedly usurious moneylenders, known as the curb market.

   这些中小企业无法以合理的贷款利率从银行获得贷款，他们因此只好求助于所谓高利贷放贷机构。

2. 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笔帐，包括高利贷的当铺债务，加在一起也不到一百元。

3. 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.

   在尤纳斯和其他一些批评人士看来，该行无异于旧时高利贷主，狂征暴敛，向穷人们放贷，年利率不低于79%。