usurious interest

基本解釋

Among the earliest changes they wrought was to reduce usurious interest rates, and build a few hospitals and roads.
他們最早期的改革包括降低高利貸利率、修建了幾家醫(yī)院和幾條公路。
When they were scrambling amid time scarcity, they were quick to borrow time, and they were nearly oblivious to the usurious interest rates the game organizers were charging.
于是每當他們因為時間所剩無幾而陣腳大亂時，他們總是急著要求借用時間，幾乎沒人意識到游戲設計者其實是在“放高利貸”。
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%。

As a result, private companies have been forced to borrow from underground finance companies at often usurious interest rates.
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The market for unsecured bonds has been closed for weeks, leaving banks with no option but to sell covered bonds at usurious interest rates that will challenge their profitability.
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