1. The cost of storing or transmitting a kilobyte of data really is now too cheap to meter. 存储和传递一千字节数据的成本现在便宜到可以忽略不计，这种事情真的在发生。
2. Suddenly, an app that had run fine for years began grinding to a halt because SELECT statements that previously returned a kilobyte or two of data now returned several megabytes. 多年来运行正常的应用程序开始突然停止工作，因为以前返回一两千字节数据的SELECT语句现在却返回了几兆字节。
3. With more than ten thousand million bytes of disk storage, it ceases to be important to us just how many hundreds are left, yet the display rigorously shows us down to the kilobyte. 尽管程序严格的显示到了千字节位，但是对我们重要的信息是剩余空间的多少。
英英解释
n.
1. a unit of information equal to one thousand (1024) bytes
