Usurer
['juːʒ(ə)rə] or ['juʒərɚ]
解释:
(n.) One who lends money and takes interest for it; a money lender.
(n.) One who lends money at a rate of interest beyond that established by law; one who exacts an exorbitant rate of interest for the use of money.
校对:梅雷迪思
娱乐性解释:
To find yourself a usurer in your dreams, foretells that you will be treated with coldness by your associates, and your business will decline to your consternation. If others are usurers, you will discard some former friend on account of treachery.
录入:纳丁
例句:
- Do you think I am a Jew-usurer, seeking good investment in land? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Yet, I would have sworn thy thought had been more on the old usurer's money bags, than on the black eyes of the daughter. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The introduction of money[230] probably increased the facilities of the usurer and the difficulties of the borrowing debtor. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- A Jewish magician might be the subject of equal abhorrence with a Jewish usurer, but he could not be equally despised. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- If the mere climate made a Venetian of Shylock, why does Shakespeare point at him as an usurer? 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Yet for all this vigour on the part of the senatorial usurers, landgrabbers, and forestallers, the hungry and the anxious were still insurgent. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Free of my commission, I shall be able to compound with some small usurers who will hear of nothing but their bond now--Vholes says so. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
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