extortionate

adj.

1. 过于昂贵的；过高的
   much too high
   1. They are offering loans at extortionate rates of interest.
      他们在放高利贷。

1. （价格等）过高的，离谱的
   If you describe something such as a price as extortionate, you are emphasizing that it is much greater than it should be.

1. When Sirena opened, there was a spot of bother with some extortionate bandits; now, says Mr Novikov, Russia is "becoming more law-abiding" ( even if the bureaucratic hurdles have increased).
   当西雷娜开张的时候，餐厅常常遭到土匪的敲诈；他说到，现在，俄罗斯正“变得越来越法制化”（即使官僚主义障碍在不断增加）。
2. This section additionally includes extortionate demands through the use of the United States Postal Service, behavior proscribed by18 U.S.C. §§ 876-877.
   另外这一部分还包括通过《美国法典》第18编867-877条所禁止的利用美国邮政系统（UnitedStatesPostalService）以进行敲诈勒索赎金的行为。
3. I think he makes extortionate demands of you.
   我认为他对你的要求过分了。
4. In view of the extortionate outlay this involves, Luke has stopped buying his newspaper and ( an even greater sacrifice) The Reader's Digest, his two favourite publications.
   由于转学后花费太大，卢克已经不买报纸和《读者文摘》（这对他来说是更大的牺牲）了，这两样是他最心爱的两种出版物。
5. In China's underground lending market, the most sensitive indicator of credit conditions, kerbside rates have reached extortionate levels of as much as6% a month ( see our report from Wenzhou).
   作为最敏感的信贷状况风向标，民间借贷目前的利率水平已到达历史最高水平的每月6%（见温州报道）。
6. Exorbitant rent; extortionate prices; spends an outrageous amount on entertainment; usorious interest rate; unconscionable spending.
   过高的租金；过高的价格；在款待上花费过高；过高的利率；过高的开销。
7. They are asking an extortionate amount of money for their house.
   他们的房子要价太高。
8. Extortionate call charges put customers off.
   昂贵的话费使乘客敬而远之。
9. If it weren't for those eleven saving clauses under the head of "Deductions" I should be beggar every year to support this extortionate and tyrannical government.
   要不是“免征项目”栏下那十一条救命的附加条款，我每年就得当乞丐，讨了钱去供奉这个敲诈勒索、独断专行的政府啦。
10. Cybersquatters will generally either offer to sell the name back to the trademark owner for an extortionate price, or make money from Internet traffic accidentally landing on their page.
    一般而言，域名抢注者或将域名以高价出售给商标所有者，或通过用户偶然登陆其网站带来的互联网流量谋利。
11. Those are extortionate interest rates to be charging.
    这些是要处理的过多的利息。
12. Fee structures and rates across the sector are often inexplicable and extortionate.
    全行业的收费结构和费率往往令人费解，且高得离谱。
13. Bars where the music is loud and the drinks extortionate.
    音乐闹哄哄、酒价又奇贵的酒吧。
14. 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。
15. A worker making extortionate demands upon the employer.
    对雇主提出过分要求的工人。
16. According to condition of extortionate height subgrade in plain or hilly area, we analyses the main influencing factor of subgrade height and put forward specific countermeasure of fall on subgrade height, it can obviously reduce subgrade height and achieve nicer social benefit.
    针对平原微丘区高速公路存在路基填筑过高的情况，对影响路基高度的主要因素作了分析，并提出了具体的路基高度降低对策，以降低路基高度，取得良好的社会效益。
17. Although PM has solved the problem of carbide segregation and crassitude fundamentally, it has complicated technics and extortionate cost, so restricts its application.
    粉末冶金虽然从根本上解决了碳化物偏析和粗大的问题，但其工艺复杂，成本过高，应用受到限制。
18. Study on Regulation Pattern for Extortionate Price of Pharmaceutical
    药品价格虚高的管制模式研究
19. The ear by surgery can not show the fine structure of one normal ear, and surgery is dangerous and extortionate and its period is long.
    耳朵外形结构精细复杂，手术再造耳不能完全显示出耳朵的精细结构，且存在手术危险、费用高昂、周期长的缺点。
20. Lenin's Thought about "Direct Transition" was related to his three extortionate estimates. Firstly, Lenin extortionately estimated the Russian economic level;
    这一思想与当时列宁的三个过高的估计有着直接的关系，一是列宁过高地估计了俄国经济发展的水平；
21. Inside stock exchange refers to the behavior that insiders make use of their mastered inside stock information or provide the information for others to exchange and make extortionate profit.
    证券内幕交易是指知情人员利用所掌握的内部证券信息进行证券交易，或者将所掌握的内部信息提供给他人进行证券交易的行为。
22. Extortionate risk of compensation will increase the cost of total social insurance ( including commercial insurance).
    过高的赔偿风险将极大地增加整个社会保险（含商业保险）的成本；
23. Thereby, in order to avoid occurring the accident and extortionate reconstructed expense, it is necessary for us to research repairing and reinforcement of fatigue damage in RC structure.
    因此，为了避免这类事故的发生，也为了避免重建的高昂费用，有必要对已有疲劳损伤的钢筋混凝土结构进行补强和加固的研究。

adj

1. greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation
   1. exorbitant rent
   2. extortionate prices
   3. spends an outrageous amount on entertainment
   4. usurious interest rate
   5. unconscionable spending

   Synonym:    exorbitantoutrageoussteepunconscionableusurious