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单词 usurious
释义
usurious
adjective
formaldisapproving
uk
/juːˈzjʊə.ri.əs/us
/juːˈʒʊr.i.əs/
A usuriouspriceorrateofinterestis one that isunfairlyhigh. :
高利贷的
usuriousinterestrates高利贷利率
Storecardsmaychargeusuriousrates, but they are notdesignedfor takingextendedcredit.商店发行的信用卡虽然会征收高利贷般的逾期还款利率，但是发行这种卡的本意就不是为了给予顾客超长的信贷还款期。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
costing a lot of money
  • expensiveHe thinks he's special with his expensive suits and fancy shoes.
  • dearUKI find the veg too dear in that supermarket.
  • costlyThey made several costly mistakes, including spending $60 million on shoddy machinery.
  • priceyThe restaurants in town are a bit pricey.
  • exclusiveThey have an apartment in an exclusive part of town.
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relatingtousury(=lendingmoneyat arateofinterestthat is too high):
放高利贷的
They werebecomingincreasinglyunpopulardueto usurious moneylending.那时他们因为放高利贷而变得愈加令人憎恨。
Clearly thismovewilldrivethepoorto the usuriousmoneylender.这项举措显然会驱使穷人去借高利贷。
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usury
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  • Hebeganas afinancier,lendingsmallsumsofmoneytoworkmenat usuriousinterest.
  • He hadborrowedmoneyat usuriousratestostartatinystore.
  • Many of them can't makepaymentson the usuriousloansthey take out tofinancetheirtrip.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Costing too much
  • a bottomless pitidiom
  • bottomless
  • capital intensive
  • cheap
  • cheap at half the priceidiom
  • cost an arm and a leg/a small fortuneidiom
  • costsomeonea pretty pennyidiom
  • costsomeonedearidiom
  • daylight robbery
  • dear
  • exorbitant
  • gouge
  • non-competitive
  • outprice
  • pretty
  • price fixing
  • pricesomeoneout
  • priceyourselfout of the marketidiom
  • prohibitive
  • sight
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(Definition ofusuriousfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofusurious

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No wonder the church ignored, or even repudiated, its immemorial condemnation ofusuriousfinance.
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What justification is there for thisusuriousinflation?
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Such encouragement puts people in hock, constantly in debt, often unable to meetusuriousrates of interest, which seem constantly to he hiked up.
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People who are trapped in poverty can encounterusuriousrates.
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They are always asking us what we propose to do to cut the trammels of thisusuriousinterest.
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Any thriving economy needs a healthy supply of credit, but it should not be lent atusuriousrates of interest, as too often happens now.
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Interest payments, at this time of inflation and with interest rates at an almostusuriouslevel, are a very substantial sum.
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I do not think we are really justified in treating these people on sternusuriouslines.
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It should do a great deal to banish the image of theusuriousmoneylender which all too often has been justifiably applied in the past.
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It merely let the corporation borrow money atusuriousrates of interest.
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The point is the famine of houses, and the power which the famine of houses gives to certain landlords to exact a rent which isusurious.
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Millions of families are living in the hope that something will turn up, pressurised as they are by loan sharks and greedy money-lenders chargingusuriousrates of interest.
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I call thoseusuriousrates.
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They are typicallyusuriousproposals.
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Where high interest rates are consideredusurious, unsecured loans are either not made at all, or are made by loan sharks unafraid of the law.
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