大学英语词汇短语释义解析及例句 millennium bug
释义：
millennium bug 千年虫；千禧虫
例句：
Can "Millennium Bug" Evolve into "Ten-thousand-year Bug"?
“千年虫”会“演化”成“万年虫”吗？
Millennium bug could cause serious economic and social harm.
千年虫故障会造成严重的经济及社会危害。
Year2000 Problem (Millennium bug) didn't cause the breakdown of global computers.
2000年问题(千年虫)并没有造成全球的电脑瘫痪。
Most of these changes would have been necessary at some stage, with or without the millennium bug.
The millennium bug is a computer glitch which results from dates being stored in two-digit form on older computers.
The government has also been quietly monitoring popular fears about the millennium bug.
"The millennium bug is a global problem and we are trying to ensure we co-ordinate information about its effects, " he said.
Satyam, however, has one drawback: Tackling the millennium bug accounts for 28% of its revenues - considered a high Y2K exposure.
Past winners include metrosexual, millennium bug and chad, as in hanging chad.
Over 50 Indian companies working on ways to squash the millennium bug have formed a special interest group to promote their services.
The correct response to the millennium bug is not dismay but humility.
Fears of a Millennium Bug strike passed unfounded although the national aviation agency barred any flights from taking off 15 minutes before and after midnight.
Shares may be benefiting from looser monetary policy, not improved fundamentals, just as they did when the Fed eased in anticipation of a millennium bug.
The timing, which combines a local recession and hints of the end of the dot.com bubble with worries about the millennium bug, is scarcely propitious.
Mr Guenier said Taskforce 2000, which was set up by the last Tory government, also feared international banks might suffer from problems associated with the millennium bug.
And for the past few years they have had other headaches to worry about as well, such as the advent of the euro and the millennium bug.
Troubles arising from the so-called Millennium Bug (chips and programs that think 00 is 1900, not 2000) will surface as companies and governments shift to fiscal year 2000.
In the 1990s, firms embraced technology religiously first because they feared that the millennium bug might trigger an apocalypse, then because they were afraid of losing out in e-business.
On the basis of their own reports, Mr Evans concludes that 30% of the companies examined are behind in their efforts to purge the millennium bug from their computers.
In its preparations for a possible millennium bug, America's Council of Economic Advisers studied the economic effects of more than two dozen natural disasters in the country since 1970.
