Usurer

(noun.) someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest.

乔整理

• 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.

尤金伲亚整理