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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.