To comply with sharia prohibitions on usury, these instruments involve direct ownership of assets rather than interest-bearing debt.

为了遵守伊斯兰教法对高利贷的禁令，这些债券涉及资产直接所有权的交接，而不是有息债券。

That way, they could practise their usury.

这样他们就能放高利贷了。

He really believed that that was usury by Islamic law.

他确实认为根据伊斯兰法律，这属于高利贷。

That is a deduction from Jeremy Bentham's theory about usury.

这是杰里米·边沁关于高利贷的理论的推论。

This regulation, instead of preventing, has been found from experience to increase the evil of usury.

从经验中发现，这种规定非但没有预防，反而增加了高利贷的罪恶。

I reckon he thinks they'd get him on the usury law if he netted more than eight percent.

我估计他认为如果他的收入超过百分之八， 他们就会让他受到高利贷法的制裁。

Name Withheld From the Ethicist: Certain religious traditions do object to lending at interest, which was the original meaning of usury.

- 向伦理学家隐瞒姓名：某些宗教传统确实反对有息贷款，这就是高利贷的原始含义。

Under former President Trump, payday lenders could charge interest rates in excess of what states allowed and avoid state usury laws by working with a commercial bank.

在前总统特朗普领导的时期，发薪日贷款人可以通过与商业银行合作，收取超过州允许的利率，同时规避州高利贷法律。

Gerard Malynes stated, giving detailed reason for his assertion, that 'Plenty of money decreaseth usury in price or rate' (Lex Mercatoria and Maintenance of Free Trade, 1622).

杰拉德·马林斯 (Gerard Malynes) 说，并给出了他断言的详细理由，即“大量货币减少了价格或利率的高利贷”（Lex Mercatoria and Maintenance of Free Trade, 1622）。

Old Monsieur de la Bertelliere called an investment an extravagance, and thought he got better interest from the sight of his gold than from the profits of usury.

德·拉·贝特利埃老先生称投资是一种奢侈，他认为看到黄金比放高利贷更能赚取利息。

Before the fall of the Roman republic, a usury of the same kind seems to have been common in the provinces, under the ruinous administration of their proconsuls.

在罗马共和国没落之前， 类似的高利贷在各省似乎很普遍， 在他们的总督的毁灭性管理下。

In countries where interest is permitted, the law in order to prevent the extortion of usury, generally fixes the highest rate which can be taken without incurring a penalty.

在允许收取利息的国家，法律为了防止高利贷，一般会规定可以收取而不会受到处罚的最高利率。

To trade, was disgraceful to a gentleman; and to lend money at interest, which at that time was considered as usury, and prohibited bylaw, would have been still more so.

做生意，是君子的耻辱； 放贷在当时被认为是高利贷， 是被法律禁止的， 更是如此。

As the profits which can afford such an interest must eat up almost the whole rent of the landlord, so such enormous usury must in its turn eat up the greater part of those profits.

由于能够提供这种利息的利润必须几乎吃掉地主的全部租金，所以如此巨额的高利贷也必须吃掉这些利润的大部分。