High interest rates are a brake on the economy.

高利率阻碍了经济发展。

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High interest rates help to keep borrowing down.

高利率有助于控制借贷。

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High interest rates have squeezed the industry hard.

高利率使这个行业举步维艰。

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Expensive electricity, an inadequately funded public sector pension system, and high interest rates round out this negative picture.

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Perhaps deliberately, perhaps as a side effect of the high interest rates required to extinguish inflation.

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Credit cards of course pay banks not only a swipe fee, but very high interest rates.

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