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：莎士比亚戏剧《威尼斯商人》中的角色。他是一位犹太放债人，向无法偿还他借来的钱的人索要一磅肉。尽管该剧将他显示为一个受到恶劣对待的人以及一个对待他人受到恶劣对待的人，但有时他的名字有时被用否定的方式描述以高利率借钱的人。