High interest rates are a brake on the economy.

高利率阻碍了经济发展。

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High interest rates help to keep borrowing down.

高利率有助于控制借贷。

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High interest rates have squeezed the industry hard.

高利率使这个行业举步维艰。

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Critics have accused them of abusing the poor by charging high interest rates.

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People can't pay --they can't pay a high interest if they don't have it as a long-term loan.

如果银行不发放长期贷款,他们就不能够支付高额利息

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That's Depository Institution's Deregulation and Monetary Control Act; what that did was, it eliminated ceilings on interest rates --on deposits, it allowed banks to pay high interest rates.

存款机构放松管制和货币控制法案,所做的就是,取消了存款利率的上限,准许银行支付高额利率

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Expensive electricity, an inadequately funded public sector pension system, and high interest rates round out this negative picture.

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Perhaps deliberately, perhaps as a side effect of the high interest rates required to extinguish inflation.

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Credit cards of course pay banks not only a swipe fee, but very high interest rates.

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