The Millennium Bug

常见例句

Scares that thrive, such as the millennium bug and swine flu, have commercial interests that benefit from their propagation.
对千年虫和猪流感等传播甚广的恐慌来说，有商业利益集团从恐慌传播中受益。
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.
出版后的两个星期、大概150次的采访之后，我的第一本书——《千年虫》，登上了纽约时报最畅销书的行列，而且在这个位置呆了超过七个月的时间。
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.
那时，人们最担心的是千年虫问题，这种“虚幻”的危机促使美联储拼命印钞以便让各个公司能够升级自己的软件。

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