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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笔帐，包括高利贷的当铺债务，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.
过去一段时间内紧缩信贷的努力已经让这个国家的中小企业们几乎“断粮”。为了获得亟需的资金，它们不得不自投罗网钻进黑市放贷者们的高利贷陷阱中。
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%。

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