Shylock

/ˈʃaɪlɒk/

/ˈʃaɪlɑːk/

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a character in Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice. He is a Jewish moneylender who demands a pound of flesh from somebody who cannot pay back the money that he borrowed. Although the play shows him as a person who is treated badly as well as a person who treats others badly, his name is sometimes used in a negative way to describe people who lend money at very high rates of interest.夏洛克：莎士比亞戲劇《威尼斯商人》中的角色。他是一位猶太放債人，向無法償還他借來的錢的人索要一磅肉。盡管該劇將他顯示爲一個受到惡劣對待的人以及一個對待他人受到惡劣對待的人，但有時他的名字有時被用否定的方式描述以高利率借錢的人。