Four years ago, we still felt that the “Year 2000 Problem” was a minor technical glitch that would probably be fixed long before that year 2000

4年前，我们觉得，计算机2000年问题(即千年难题)不过是个小小的技术问题，大概到不了2000年，这个问题就能迎刃而解。

The airmen were under orders to abort their mission if on-board equipment showed the slightest glitch

飞行员事先接到命令，如果机载装备发生哪怕一点点的故障，也要取消所执行的任务。

A computer glitch ;a navigational glitch;a glitch in the negotiations.

计算机故障;航海事故;谈判障碍

Reports say that governments of Britain ,U.S. and other developed countries are on course to tackle the millennium bug in public sector computers(a computer programming glitch that threatens to wipe out band accounts, financial statements, and databases when the year 1999becomes the year2000)

据报道，英美等发达国家的政府正着手处理公共部门计算机的千年(虫)问题(1999年变成2000年时将有毁掉银行账户、财政报表和数据库危险的计算机编程差错)

THE GOOD NEWS AND THE BAD The Year 200 computer glitch has proved surprisingly troublesome

美专家谈电脑千年难题带来的好消息与坏消息

In more than 20 years , the Internet has experienced only one major backbone failure, and that was because of a software glitch , not because of cable failures.

在20多年的时间里，Internet仅出现过一次中枢干线的故障，而造成这一事故的原因不是因为电缆上的故障，而是因为软件上的毛病。

||1:In these two cases there was no news of big losses.So there was no panic.||2:All concerned also appear to be making a genuine effort to understand and disclose what went wrong.||3:NASDAQ’s reputation and revenues are still suffering from the disastrous public offering of Facebook in May of 2012, when computer glitches produced an estimated $500m-worth of errant trades.||4:Knight Capital, a securities firm, never recovered from a $460m trading glitch last year.||5:On August 20th a flurry of misdirected trades by Goldman Sachs, a bank, caused embarrassment and as yet unspecified losses.||6:Even the most robust seem vulnerable.

||1:在两次关停事件中，都未出现重大损失的报道，因而也没有恐慌。||2:所有关心此事的人都发挥着自己的聪明才智理解、揭示出错的原因。||3:2012年5月脸书的灾难性公开发行对纳斯达克的名誉和交易额影响尚未褪去，彼时计算机的小错误引发了一笔价值近5亿美元错误交易。||4:证券公司——游侠资本也尚未从去年价值4.6亿美元的错误中恢复过来。||5:在8月20日，高盛银行的误操作同样导致一系列错误交易并引发恐慌，相关损失的数额时至今日依然未能确定。||6:即使最为稳健的公司也如此不堪一击。

||1: TIME was it took a war to close a financial exchange. Now all it needs is a glitch in technology. ||2: On August 26th trading on Eurex, the main German derivatives exchange, opened as usual; 20 minutes later it shut down for about an hour. ||3: Four days earlier the shares of every company listed on NASDAQ, an American stock exchange, ceased trading for three hours. ||4: The direct impact of these computer crashes was small. But, given that global markets and financial firms are all hooked up through complex trading programs, the indirect impact could be significant.

||1:曾几何时，发生战争时金融交易才会中止；但现在，技术上的一点故障就能导致相同的结果。||2:8月26日，德国衍生品交易的主要场所——欧洲期货交易所，照常开市；但在20分钟后却临时关停1个小时。||3:四天前，在美国股票交易所——纳斯达克上市的公司股票全部暂停交易两小时。||4:这些计算机故障导致的直接影响很小，但考虑到全球市场和金融公司都通过复杂的交易程序联系在一起，间接的影响简直不可估量。

With stutterers, he thinks, a specific group of brain cells involved in speech production is, for an unknown reason, uniquely sensitive to the enzymatic glitch —perhaps producing the patterns seen by Dr De Nil in his brain scanners.

他认为，对口吃者来说，参与话语生成的一组特定的脑细胞，不明原因的对酶毛刺有一种独特的敏感—也许将德.尼尔博士在脑部扫描中看到的结构生成出来能够解释这个现象。

With stutterers, he thinks, a specific group of brain cells involved in speech production is, for an unknown reason, uniquely sensitive to the enzymatic glitch —perhaps producing the patterns seen by Dr De Nil in his brain scanners.

他认为，对口吃者来说，参与话语生成的一组特定的脑细胞，不明原因的对酶毛刺有一种独特的敏感——也许将德.尼尔博士在脑部扫描中看到的结构生成出来能够解释这个现象。

NASDAQ, meanwhile, launched an inquiry into the electronic glitch that caused it to cease trading for three hours on August 22nd.

与此同时，纳斯达克交易所对8月22日发生的技术故障发起调查。该故障曾使该交易所股票交易暂停长达三小时。

Glitch is what gamers call a massively multiplayer game, which lets many people play online at once.

“Glitch”就是所谓的强大的多人游戏，允许很多人同时在线玩。

In November 2005, the exchange was forced to close its equity trading for several hours because of a computer glitch .

2005年11月，由于计算机故障，东京证交所被迫暂停其股票交易达数小时之久。

Facebook’s explanation of this glitch was somewhat disingenuous.

Facebook对此次事故的解释多少有些不真诚。

Even with a flurry of online traffic, retailers appeared to pull off Cyber Monday without a glitch .

不过零售商们还是经受住了在线星期一的流量冲击。

Unfortunately, in our society, after age 25 or so, many folks begin to focus on any glitch in memory as evidence for its demise.

不幸的是，在我们的社会，在25岁左右或者更大些，许多人开始关注在记忆方面的任何故障作为其死亡的证据。

But if there’s radio interference or some other glitch with either the patch or the pump, there could be serious health consequences.

但是，如果发生了无线电干扰，或是大胶布（智能创可贴）和输送泵其中任一出现了小故障，都会导致人身健康的严重后果。

Toyota spokesman Mike Michels said the automaker was moving towards announcing a remedy for the Prius brake glitch .

丰田发言人MikeMichels称，公司即将宣布对普锐斯刹车故障的补救办法。

The company tried to keep the glitch quiet but was exposed by a security researcher.

该公司试图将事故掩饰而过，但被一个安全研究人员揭露出来。

Apple will offer all new buyers of the iPhone 4 a free case that cures the reception glitch .

公司将会为iPhone4的所有新用户免费赠送手机套以解决通讯缺陷。

Other refinery problems also played into the rally, including a crude unit glitch at Shell’s refinery in Deer Park, Texas, dealers said.

交易员称，其他炼油厂的问题亦带动此波反弹走势，例如壳牌在德州DeerPark炼油厂的原油装置出现故障。

And a software glitch crippled the baggage handling system today at an American Airlines terminal at JFK .

今日，一起软件故障导致美国肯尼迪国际机场的行李管理系统瘫痪。

Don’t sweat minor mishaps. Have fun. Few will remember a glitch unless you call attention to it.

开心点，没有几个人会在意那些小失误的。

The Alteration of Brownout to Overcome Glitch , Harmonic and Voltage Fluctuation

克服瞬流、谐波和电压波动的节电改造

Neither glitch could have been predicted.

两个小差错都是原本可以预测到的。

Ministers think the savings credit introduced by Mr Brown in part to address that glitch merely complicated the system.

内阁大臣们认为布朗提出的税收抵免政策在部分解决那个小毛病的同时仅仅使系统变得更加复杂。

LL: A glitch is a technical problem.

噢，glitch就是技术故障。

In November, the exchange was forced to close its equity trading for several hours because of a computer glitch .

去年11月，由于电脑系统发生故障，东京证交所被迫停止股票交易数小时。

The tests may continue later today or tomorrow once engineers have resolved the glitch .

如果工程师们能及时修复故障，试航工作将在当天晚些时候或第二天继续。

If there is no glitch , an astonishing future of understanding beckons.

如果没有任何错误，认知领域就将迎来一个惊人的未来。

glitch mode

频率突增型

noise glitch

n.噪声假信号

glitch trigger

n.窄脉冲触发器

glitch activity

自转突变活动

amplitude glitch

n.幅度假信号

worstcase glitch

n.最坏情况假信号