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英语课

By Elizabeth Arrott
Cairo
16 November 2009


Egypt says it has begun registration 1 for the first Arabic language Internet domain 2. The move is part of efforts to let users of non-Latin script have better access to the Web.


 


 
The new domain name will be "dot.msr" (pronounced either misr or masr), Arabic for Egypt, and promises to open up the Web to millions of Arabic-only readers.


Egypt's Minister of Communications and Information Technology Tarek Kamel announced the move at the fourth Internet Governance Forum 3, under way in the Egyptian resort Sharm el-Sheikh.


The U.N.-backed forum is building on a decision by the body responsible for domains 4, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, to allow Web site addresses in any language. 


ICANN says about half the Internet users around the world don't use a Latin-based script as their native language, adding the change will affect billions of potential users.


The group says requests by governments for domain names should be approved and come online next year. Individual Web addresses would then follow.
 
U.N. Under Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs Sha Zukang highlighted the reason for this year's conference, "Creating Opportunities for All," at Sunday's opening session.


"It will allow us to reexamine and reflect upon the main theme of the IGF: access, diversity, openness, security and critical Internet resources," Sha said.


Media rights groups welcome the end of Latin-alphabet Web domination.


But Soazig Dollet of Paris-based Reporters Without Borders says it is laughable that Egypt should be in the front of the movement.


"The fact that Egypt is launching this Arabic domain Monday is ironic 5, really, regarding the situation of freedom on the Internet today in this country. Egypt is one of the enemies of the Internet. And Internet governance requires regulations," Dollet said.


Reporters Without Borders is one of several media and human rights groups that have expressed concern about Egyptian opposition 6 figures who have been detained for their Internet writings.


Dollet adds that while there are other Arabic-speaking countries that do not control the Internet as much as Egypt, it is not clear how long that relative freedom will last.



n.登记,注册,挂号
  • Marriage without registration is not recognized by law.法律不承认未登记的婚姻。
  • What's your registration number?你挂的是几号?
n.(活动等)领域,范围;领地,势力范围
  • This information should be in the public domain.这一消息应该为公众所知。
  • This question comes into the domain of philosophy.这一问题属于哲学范畴。
n.论坛,讨论会
  • They're holding a forum on new ways of teaching history.他们正在举行历史教学讨论会。
  • The organisation would provide a forum where problems could be discussed.这个组织将提供一个可以讨论问题的平台。
n.范围( domain的名词复数 );领域;版图;地产
  • The theory of thermodynamics links the macroscopic and submicroscopic domains. 热力学把宏观世界同亚微观世界联系起来。 来自辞典例句
  • All three flow domains are indicated by shading. 所有三个流动区域都是用阴影部分表示的。 来自辞典例句
adj.讽刺的,有讽刺意味的,出乎意料的
  • That is a summary and ironic end.那是一个具有概括性和讽刺意味的结局。
  • People used to call me Mr Popularity at high school,but they were being ironic.人们中学时常把我称作“万人迷先生”,但他们是在挖苦我。
n.反对,敌对
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
学英语单词
Abeele
ablative coatings
absorption conductor cathode
acoustic grating
albedo particles
amplitude contour
angiocardiograms
apex pin
asarylic acid
ASTM (American Standard of Testing Materials)
audio track circuit
avalanche injection diode
ayah
become a prey to
biacidic base
blood-and-guts
brain-mapping
buccal tablets
c-suite
calibrated radiation source
cam shaft thrust bearing
capital goods in the agricultural sector
carroch
cetrelia sinensis
cluster compound
cocultures
coefficient of evaporation
coracesium (alanya)
count me in
dissipating phlegm and resolving masses
Dry Ridge
ellen
enzyme hydrolysis
eucriotettix oculatus
everglades national parks
forboded
get long
Goldschmidt classification
homuncle
hot landing
in-by
initially
internal photoeffect
King's Park
lent
LESP
lithocyte
lustration
mainshaft synchronizer gear
markee
multiple-purpose communication
Nansen Basin
navicula cryptocephala
non staining
North Canadian R.
nulliparae
oval bush
parallel planing machine
pickup arms
polyarthra trigla
pre-milk stimulator
progressive apoplexy
Puerto Valdés
rear end compaction
red worms
resolution refutation system
ringworm of nails
RMETS
rubus niveus wall.subsp inopertus focke
sales associates
salvage gear
sarabands
saron
segmental brownian motion
selected text
shavuoths
sigma notation
simian virus
strongly connected automation
Särkisalmi
tank duel
tensor shear strain
territorial dominion
theatre sister
titanium(ii) oxide
top cutting edge
transthoracic
trickments
triple reassortant
unicameral
unprincess
unrightful
unsovable labeling procedure
vecinos
veinlets
vickerl's hardness number (vhn)
Warrington hammer
well-to-do
wesleyan methodist churches
wintling
Witheridge
x-knife stereotactic radiosurgery system