Poor people are increasingly at the mercy of heartless money-lenders.

越来越多穷人受昧良心的放债人摆布。

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From that day on, The Human Sponge was just a sweetie... except around money-lenders.

从那天起，“海绵”就像一个小糖果……除了在放债人身边时。

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But you couldn't get along without masters of some sort, and there arose a new set of masters - not the great, virile, noble men, but the shrewd and spidery traders and money-lenders.

可是没有某种意义上的主人你们过不下去，于是出现了一批新主人——不是那种伟大的、精力充沛的、高贵的人，而是些蜘蛛一样的精明的生意人，放债人。

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Historically, money lenders of one sort or another go back -who knows how far back -thousands of years.

从历史上讲,放债人的存在可以追溯到,谁知道多久以前,数千年前吧

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The TSI said illegal money-lenders targeted vulnerable people, such as single mothers, people with drug addictions or those with mental health problems.

BBC: Consumers have been charged extortionate interest rates

Peter Ryan accepts that the loan rates look high to European eyes, but points out that they are much lower than the rates charged by local money-lenders.

BBC: Lessons from microfinance

Prior to the English Reformation, would-be borrowers had had to turn to the much smaller universe of non-Christian (usually Jewish) money lenders.

FORBES: A Distant Mirror