Usury
['juːʒ(ə)rɪ] or ['juʒəri]
解释:
(noun.) the act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest.
(noun.) an exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest.
格伦录入--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) A premium or increase paid, or stipulated to be paid, for a loan, as of money; interest.
(v. t.) The practice of taking interest.
(v. t.) Interest in excess of a legal rate charged to a borrower for the use of money.
手打:劳里
同义词及近义词：
n. Illegal interest, exorbitant interest.
校对:特伦斯
解释:
n. the taking of iniquitous or illegal interest on a loan formerly interest of any kind on money lent.—v.i. U′sure (Shak.) to practise usury.—n. U′surer (orig. and in B.) any money-lender for interest: one who practises usury.—adj. Usū′rious.—adv. Usū′riously.—n. Usū′riousness.
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例句:
- In his early days he was bitterly virtuous against usury; in his later he was devising ingenious schemes for safe usury. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Suffer your daughters, at least, to put their money to the exchangers, that they may be enabled at the Master's coming to pay Him His own with usury. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- This regulation, instead of preventing, has been found from experience to increase the evil of usury. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Usury developed largely in the last thousand years B.C. Traders needed accommodation; cultivators wished to anticipate their crops. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
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