extortionate的读音 extortionate中文意思
英音
[ɪkˈstɔ:ʃənət]
美音 [ɪkˈstɔrʃənɪt]
adj. 过高的，过分的，敲诈的美音 [ɪkˈstɔrʃənɪt]
中文词源
extortionate 过高的
ex-, 向外。-tort, 扭曲，词源同turn, contort. 即过高要求的。
extortionate 用法和例句
- Extortionate call charges put customers off .
- 昂贵的话费使乘客敬而远之。
- The price exacted by the hijackers for redeeming the hostages was extortionate .
- 劫持者为交换人质而索要的代价太过分了。
- Those are extortionate interest rates to be charging .
- 这些是要处理的过多的利息。
- Scholars were charged extortionate permissions fees , and often bluntly refused the right to quote from his grandfather 's work at all .
- 学者引用乔伊斯作品时被迫交纳昂贵的许可费，甚至经常根本不被获准引用。
- The trigger was the us " subprime " mortgage crisis where lenders targeted poor people with loans at extortionate rates of .
- 触发是美国的“次级”抵押贷款危机有针对性的穷人贷款，敲诈率.