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.
對千年蟲和豬流感等傳播甚廣的恐慌來說，有商業(yè)利益集團從恐慌傳播中受益。
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.
出版後的兩個星期、大概150次的採訪之後，我的第一本書——《千年蟲》，登上了紐約時報最暢銷書的行列，而且在這個位置呆了超過七個月的時間。
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，人們最擔(dān)心的是千年蟲問題，這種“虛幻”的危機促使美聯(lián)儲拼命印鈔以便讓各個公司能夠陞級自己的軟件。

Most of these changes would have been necessary at some stage, with or without the millennium bug.
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The government has also been quietly monitoring popular fears about the millennium bug.
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