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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筆帳，包括高利貸的當(dāng)鋪債務(wù)，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.
過去一段時(shí)間內(nèi)緊縮信貸的努力已經(jīng)讓這個(gè)國家的中小企業(yè)們幾乎“斷糧”。為了獲得亟需的資金，它們不得不自投羅網(wǎng)鉆進(jìn)黑市放貸者們的高利貸陷阱中。
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(shí)高利貸主，狂征暴斂，向窮人們放貸，年利率不低于79%。

Venture funds, particularly those backing independent nonstudio films, often have usurious fees and meager returns.
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As a result, private companies have been forced to borrow from underground finance companies at often usurious interest rates.
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Few private firms have access to capital at anything other than usurious rates.
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