usurious interest

The annual interest rate for usurious loans was very high, while that for money borrowed from monasteries was 30 percent, and for grain 20 or 25 percent.

高利贷年利率一般都很高，向寺庙借钱利率为30%，借粮为20%或25%；

Snowballing interest of usurious loans created debts which could never be repaid by even succeeding generations and debts involving a guarantor resulted in the bankruptcy of both the debtor and the guarantor.

高利贷利滚利，造成永远还不完的子孙债和以借贷人和担保人全部破产而告终的连保债。

They lent money with usurious interest before 1945.

解放前他家时常放印子吃利息.

On the basis of the previous study results, this paper will make an attempt to discuss objectively about the interest of loan, and holds that in the prevalence of the usurious loan, the Buddhism monastery still provided interest-free loan for the local people.

本文在借鉴、尊重前人研究成果的基础上，客观地对敦煌寺院出贷的利息问题做了尝试性的讨论，认为在当时高利贷风行的敦煌地区，佛教寺院依然在为民众提供无息借贷。