usurious

英 [juːˈʒʊəriəs]

美 [juːˈʒʊriəs]

adj.  放高利贷的; 收取高利的

经济

COCA.38286

牛津词典

adj.

• 放高利贷的；收取高利的
  lending money at very high rates of interest

英英释义

adj

• greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation
  1. exorbitant rent
  2. extortionate prices
  3. spends an outrageous amount on entertainment
  4. usurious interest rate
  5. unconscionable spending
  Synonym:exorbitantextortionateoutrageoussteepunconscionable

双语例句

• By comparison, living in my overpriced apartment, walking to work past putrid sacks of street garbage, paying usurious taxes to local and state governments I generally abhor.
  相比之下，生活在我收费不菲的公寓，步行去工作经过散发着腐臭的袋袋街头垃圾，缴纳给地方和各州政府高利贷般的税款，我常常对这一切是深恶痛绝。
• In several incidents I know about they have been unnecessarily short-term and unpredictable, ignoring long-term relationships and using excuses to withdraw facilities summarily or charge usurious fees.
  在我知道的一些事件中，它们表现出无谓的目光短浅和不可预测，忽略长期关系，利用各种借口迅速收回贷款，或收取高额费用。
• The Reserve Bank hands the money over to a'holding bank'who lavishly loans the money to Third World countries for usurious rates of interest.
  储备银行手中的钱给一个'举行银行贷款谁华丽的钱第三世界国家的高利贷利率。
• The fact that he insisted on cutting Antonio one pound of flesh in the chest, does not proceed from his seeking counterattack or revenge for defending Jewish national dignity, but from the hatred of his rival in the usurious business.
  他执意要割安东尼奥胸前的一磅肉，不是为捍卫犹太民族尊严所作的回击、报复，而是对高利贷生意竞争对手的痛恨。
• Among these, the usurious loan credit was the predominant and had deep influences on social and economic life.
  其中，高利贷信用是一种主导信用形式，对社会经济生活影响较为深远。
• In the Tang and Song Dynasties, promoted by the development of commodity economy, credit business appeared in the social and economic life, taking the forms like usurious loan credit, commercial credit, consumption credit and state credit.
  唐宋时期，在商品经济发展的促动下，社会经济生活中发生了诸多信用业务。主要有高利贷信用、商业信用、消费信用和国家信用等形式。
• Usurious capital in modern Chinas tea industry
  近代中国茶业中的高利贷金融资本
• The second chapter mainly talks about the differences of loan on credit, folk debit and usurious.
  第二章，介绍了民间借贷、信用社贷款和高利贷的基本概述及其区别。
• Some questions about Ming Dynasty's usurious interest rate
  关于明代高利贷资本利率的几个问题
• 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。