上半年超5800人放弃美国国籍创下纪录_BEC初级作文

上半年超5800人放弃美国国籍创下纪录

短短17天，美国新冠肺炎确诊病例再增百万，累计确诊超过500万例，死亡病例超16万。美国政府对新冠疫情的应对让不少美国人感到失望。有研究指出，今年上半年，超过5800人放弃美国国籍，创下纪录。除疫情和政治原因外，人们做出这一决定还有税收方面的原因。

A record number of people are giving up their US citizenship, new research published on Sunday found.

上周日（8月9日）公布的一项新研究发现，放弃美国国籍的人数创下纪录。

上半年超5800人放弃美国国籍创下纪录1

More than 5,800 Americans gave up their citizenship in the first six months of 2020 compared to the 2,072 Americans who renounced their citizenship in all of 2019, according to Bambridge Accountants, a New York-based firm.

根据总部位于纽约的班布里奇会计师事务所的数据，在2020年的前六个月，超过5800名美国人放弃了美国国籍，而2019年全年放弃美国国籍的人数为2072人。

renounce[rɪˈnaʊns]：vt.宣布放弃

The firm said it examined public data, published by the US government every three months, of the names of all Americans who give up their citizenship.

该事务所表示，它审查了所有放弃美国国籍的美国人姓名公开数据，美国政府每三个月发布一次这类数据。

"These are mainly people who already left the US and just decided they've had enough of everything," Alistair Bambridge, a partner at Bambridge Accountants, told cnn.