英语词汇“to strain up”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

j. to strain up: to force up to a higher scale of estimation; to ‘screw up’ (rents, usury) to an oppressive rate.

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society > trade and finance > charges > [verb (transitive)] > overcharge > increase to excessive amount

to strain up1599

1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 218 In all places they are permitted to streine up their Vsury to eighteene in the hundred upon the Christian.

1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. xi. 142 Both of these species are also either felonious, or not felonious. The felonious breaches of the peace are strained up to that degree of malignity by virtue of several modern statutes.

1905 Westm. Gaz. 23 Aug. 8/2 ‘What is to be understood by “straining rents”?’..‘I have known houses, built to let at 11s. a week, gradually strained up to 14s.’

单词	to strain up
释义	> as lemmas to strain up j. to strain up: to force up to a higher scale of estimation; to ‘screw up’ (rents, usury) to an oppressive rate. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > charges > [verb (transitive)] > overcharge > increase to excessive amount to strain up1599 1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 218 In all places they are permitted to streine up their Vsury to eighteene in the hundred upon the Christian. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. xi. 142 Both of these species are also either felonious, or not felonious. The felonious breaches of the peace are strained up to that degree of malignity by virtue of several modern statutes. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 23 Aug. 8/2 ‘What is to be understood by “straining rents”?’..‘I have known houses, built to let at 11s. a week, gradually strained up to 14s.’ extracted from strainv.¹ < as lemmas
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