







borrow from loan sharks
take out a usurious loan
borrow at usurious rates
The serfs engaged in hard labor year in and year out and yet had no guaranteed food or clothing. Often they had to rely on money borrowed at usury to keep body and soul together.
If in lending, the demand for in-kind as principal and interest repayment, or to borrow cash and in kind to be interest in more than 20% per annum can be considered as persons usury.

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Open the tool →借高利贷 (jiè gāo lì dài) means “borrow from loan sharks, take out a usurious loan, borrow at usurious rates”.
借高利贷 is pronounced jiè gāo lì dài in Mandarin Chinese.
“borrow from loan sharks” is 借高利贷 (jiè gāo lì dài) in Chinese.
This page has 2 example sentences using 借高利贷, each with pinyin and an English translation.