Today, with businesses and workers struggling to the end of the decade, the groundless fears over the millennium bug seem almost quaint by comparison with what actually happened.

• 而今，当企业与工人在这十年临近尾声之际苦苦挣扎的时候，与实际发生的一切相比，对千年虫毫无根据的恐惧看上去几乎有些离奇。