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。
• Usurious capital in modern Chinas tea industry
  近代中国茶业中的高利贷金融资本
• 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
• 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。
• 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。
• Impacts of usurious loan on the processes of agricultural modernization in China and India
  中印农村高利贷对农业现代化进程的影响
• Seen from the viewpoint, the so-called "usurious exploitation" in fork loan does not come from the credit action itself but lies in the cruel competition in credit market.
  从这一角度出发，民间借贷关系中所谓的高利贷剥削就不是出自于借贷行为本身，而在于借贷市场的残酷竞争。
• 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。
• 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.
  信贷紧缩政策使急需资金的小企业囊中羞涩，不得不投靠放高利贷的黑市贷款人。