The Millennium Bug

常見例句

Scares that thrive, such as the millennium bug and swine flu, have commercial interests that benefit from their propagation.
對(duì)千年蟲和豬流感等傳播甚廣的恐慌來(lái)說(shuō)，有商業(yè)利益集團(tuán)從恐慌傳播中受益。
Two months after it’s publication—and about 150 interviews later—The Millennium Bug, my first book, hit the New York Times Business Bestseller List where it stayed for over seven months.
出版后的兩個(gè)星期、大概150次的采訪之后，我的第一本書——《千年蟲》，登上了紐約時(shí)報(bào)最暢銷書的行列，而且在這個(gè)位置呆了超過(guò)七個(gè)月的時(shí)間。
This was an era when people seriously fretted about the Millennium Bug, a phantom crisis that prompted the Fed to make money cheaply available so companies could upgrade their corporate software.
那時(shí)，人們最擔(dān)心的是千年蟲問題，這種“虛幻”的危機(jī)促使美聯(lián)儲(chǔ)拼命印鈔以便讓各個(gè)公司能夠升級(jí)自己的軟件。

Most of these changes would have been necessary at some stage, with or without the millennium bug.
ECONOMIST: Who’s to pay for Y2K?
The government has also been quietly monitoring popular fears about the millennium bug.
ECONOMIST: Millennium party-poopers