If I may add something on a personal note, I must say that at a personal level these facts do remind me with some finality that I shall be entering the new millennium without a job.

• 如果我能在个人记录上再添上几笔的话，我要说这些因素确实提醒我一个终结性的结局，那就是我将在进人新千年后就没有工作了。