usury
英 ['juːʒ(ə)rɪ]
美 ['juʒəri]
助記提示
1. Usury is etymologically 'use' of money lent, hence 'interest'.
2. Originally the practice of lending money at interest, later, at excessive rates of interest.
中文詞源
usury 放高利貸來自use,使用，利用，引申義放高利貸。
英文詞源
- usury
- usury: [14] Usury is etymologically ‘use’ of money lent. The term comes via Anglo-Norman *usurie from medieval Latin ūsūria, an alteration of classical Latin ūsūra ‘use of money lent’, hence ‘interest’. This in turn was derived from ūsus ‘use’, source also of English use and usage.
=> use - usury (n.)
- c. 1300, "practice of lending money at interest," later, at excessive rates of interest, from Medieval Latin usuria, alteration of Latin usura "payment for the use of money, interest," literally "a usage, use, enjoyment," from usus, from stem of uti (see use (v.)). From mid-15c. as "premium paid for the use of money, interest," especially "exorbitant interest."
雙語例句
- 1. The interest of usury is unfairly high.
- 高利貸的利息驚人得高.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 2. He used to practise usury frequently.
- 他過去經常放高利貸。
來自辭典例句
- 3. And the principal means for suppressing the common liberty were -- money and usury.
- 這時, 貨幣和高利貸已成為壓製人民自由的主要手段.
來自英漢非文學 - 家庭、私有製和國家的起源
- 4. Usury is condemned as payment for the use of money which has no use value.
- 高利貸是受到遺責的,因為那是對使用貨幣的支付,而貨幣本身是沒有使用價值的.
來自辭典例句
- 5. The purpose however, was the same - tax collection, usury, local political control.
- 然而, 不管旗號是什麽,目的都是為了征稅 、 放高利貸和在當地進行政治控製.
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