英國(guó)民眾申請(qǐng)愛(ài)爾蘭護(hù)照 申請(qǐng)表被搶空(雙語(yǔ))

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　　Britons apparently desperate to hang onto EU citizenship in the wake of the Brexit referendum result have been making record numbers of applications for Irish passports。
　　英國(guó)人顯然想保住他們的歐盟公民身份：脫歐公投結(jié)果使愛(ài)爾蘭護(hù)照申請(qǐng)打破記錄,。

　　Ireland’s embassy and post offices in Northern Ireland received more than 4,，000 enquiries on Monday， compared with the 200 it normally receives,， Reuters reports,。
　　據(jù)路透社報(bào)道，愛(ài)爾蘭駐北愛(ài)爾蘭大使館和郵局星期一收到超過(guò)4000份申請(qǐng),，而通常情況下每天只會(huì)收到200份,。

　　Anyone born in the Irish Republic， Northern Ireland or with an Irish parent or grandparent,， is eligible for an Irish passport – some six million people living in the UK,。
　　任何出生在愛(ài)爾蘭共和國(guó)、北愛(ài)爾蘭,，或者有愛(ài)爾蘭籍父母或祖父母的人,，都可以擁有愛(ài)爾蘭護(hù)照。這樣的人在英國(guó)有六百萬(wàn)人,。

　　Ireland’s foreign minister Charlie Flanagan has appealed to Britons to stop rushing for Irish passports,， as the surge threatened to overwhelm Irish consular offices。
　　愛(ài)爾蘭外交部長(zhǎng)查利·弗拉納根呼吁英國(guó)人停止瘋搶愛(ài)爾蘭護(hù)照,，因?yàn)檫@一激增對(duì)愛(ài)爾蘭領(lǐng)事館的運(yùn)轉(zhuǎn)造成了威脅,。

　　In a statement he said： “An unnecessary surge in applications for Irish passports will place significant pressure on the system and on turnaround times。
　　他在一份聲明中說(shuō)：“愛(ài)爾蘭護(hù)照申請(qǐng)的不必要激增將對(duì)系統(tǒng)和周轉(zhuǎn)時(shí)間造成壓力,。

　　“The increased interest clearly points to a sense of concern among some UK passport holders that the rights they enjoy as EU citizens are about to abruptly end,。
　　“（人們對(duì)申請(qǐng)護(hù)照）興趣大增顯然表明了一些持有英國(guó)護(hù)照的人的憂慮，這些原本享有歐盟公民身份帶來(lái)的權(quán)力的人將突然失去這些權(quán)利,。

　　“I want to state clearly that this is not the case,。”
　　“我想說(shuō)的是，事情并不是這樣的,�,！�

　　Ireland’s embassy in Paris has also been dealing with a record number of requests， Reuters reports,。
　　路透社報(bào)道，愛(ài)爾蘭駐巴黎大使館收到的申請(qǐng)也創(chuàng)下紀(jì)錄,。

　　The stampede for Irish passports was also fanned by the Democratic Unionist Party MP Ian Paisley,， who had campaigned for Brexit。 He tweeted： “My advice is if you are entitled to a second passport then take one,�,！�
　　支持英國(guó)脫歐的北愛(ài)爾蘭民主統(tǒng)一黨議員伊恩·佩斯利也煽動(dòng)愛(ài)爾蘭護(hù)照哄搶事件,。他說(shuō)：“我的建議是,，如果你可以申請(qǐng)第二份護(hù)照那就去申請(qǐng)一個(gè)吧�,！�

　　Last year Ireland issued about 670,，000 passports， mostly to Irish citizens,， while at least 500,，000 of Northern Ireland’s 1.8m citizens hold an Irish passport。
　　去年愛(ài)爾蘭發(fā)行了約六十七萬(wàn)本護(hù)照,，大多是面向愛(ài)爾蘭公民,，而北愛(ài)爾蘭一百八十萬(wàn)居民中有至少五十萬(wàn)人擁有愛(ài)爾蘭護(hù)照。

　　Northern Irish citizens can hold both a British and an Irish passport,。
　　北愛(ài)爾蘭公民可以同時(shí)擁有一個(gè)英國(guó)護(hù)照和一個(gè)愛(ài)爾蘭護(hù)照,。(愛(ài)語(yǔ)吧)