Exercises

1.Please translate the following phrases into Chinese.

fiber optic cable

transmission line

nuts and bolts

interface message processor

HTML

file transfer protocol

encryption

local-area network

wide-area network

virtual private network

2.Please translate the following sentences into Chinese.

（1）The Internet is the name of the global communication network consisting of thousands of networks typically interconnected by fiber optic cabling.

（2）As a matter of fact，the Internet we know today grew out of a project by the United States Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

（3）A subnet carries message from host to host，hence the subnet is the communication part of the network.

（4）What was needed was a network of interconnected networks.This led to the idea of internetworksor Internet.

（5）The Internet is the global Internet that grew out of the Arpanet.