usurious interest

基本解释

Among the earliest changes they wrought was to reduce usurious interest rates, and build a few hospitals and roads.
他们最早期的改革包括降低高利贷利率、修建了几家医院和几条公路。
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.
于是每当他们因为时间所剩无几而阵脚大乱时，他们总是急着要求借用时间，几乎没人意识到游戏设计者其实是在“放高利贷”。
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.
在尤纳斯和其他一些批评人士看来，该行无异于旧时高利贷主，狂征暴敛，向穷人们放贷，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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Then the card companies can hit them up for usurious interest.
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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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