2008年7月4日 星期五

usury 小記

usury

現在一般翻譯 Usury 為 "高利贷"

如 新帕尔格雷夫经济学大词典专题

其實 原先Usury 非高利貸 只是放利之財務番方式

所以日本解釋路德的論文

The Social Background of Luther's "Trade and Usury" ... ルター「商業・利子論」の社会的背景.

這在莎士比亞劇中都如此 譬如說 威尼斯商人或

Did you but know the city's usuries And felt them knowingly; the art o' the court As hard to leave as keep; whose top to climb ...
Cymbeline: ACT III , SCENE III. Wales: a mountainous country with ..


現在有許多專業詞點攻參考

Shakespeare's Legal Language: A Dictionary - Google Books Result

by B. J. Sokol, Mary Sokol - 2005 - Literary Criticism - 497 pages
... while the outlawed courtier Belarius associates it with metropolitan and courtly corruption ('Did you but know the city's usuries, / And felt them ...

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