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Americans Skip Millions of Loan Payments as Coronavirus Takes Economic Toll
由於新冠病毒造成的經濟損失，許多美國人暫緩繳納貸款

🌪Americans have skipped payments on more than 100 million student loans, auto loans and other forms of debt since the coronavirus hit the U.S., the latest sign of the toll the pandemic is taking on people’s finances.
自從新冠病毒疫情以來，美國人已經拖欠了一億多筆的學貸、車貸以及其他各種形式的債務，這是疫情對人們財務狀況造成損害的最新跡象。

skip: 常做跳過之意，此為避免、省略的意思
auto loans: 汽車貸款
take a toll: 造成損失、傷害

🌪The number of accounts that enrolled in deferment, forbearance or some other type of relief since March 1 and remain in such a state rose to 106 million at the end of May, triple the number at the end of April, according to credit-reporting firm TransUnion.
根據信用調查公司TransUnion數據顯示，自3/1以來申請延後繳款、寬限或是其他類型的減免，並依然處於該狀態的帳戶數量截至五月底已躍升至1.06億，是四月底的三倍之多。

enroll in: 使加入，此作登記、註冊之意
deferment: 延期、延後
forbearance: 寬限期

📈The largest increase occurred for student loans, with 79 million accounts in deferment or other relief status, up from 18 million a month earlier. Auto loans in some type of deferment doubled to 7.3 million accounts. Personal loans in deferment doubled to 1.3 million accounts.
增幅最大的是學貸，有7900萬個帳戶處於延後繳款或其他的救濟狀態，一個月前此數量僅為1800萬；延後繳款的車貸亦增加一倍達730萬之多；延後繳款的個人貸款帳戶同樣新增一倍達130萬。

occur: 發生
personal loan: 個人信貸

🏦In other types of lending, consumers are actively seeking help. Many credit-card, auto-loan and personal-loan lenders continue to allow consumers to skip or pause payments, in hopes of buying time for the economy to recover and for consumers to get back on track with their payments.
在其他類型的貸款中，消費者正積極尋求協助，許多信用卡、車貸及個人信貸公司持續讓消費者暫停或延後還款，希望幫經濟的復甦以及消費者回歸正常還款來爭取時間。

lending: 借款
buy time: 爭取時間
get back on track: 片語，回到正軌

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