The OSI Model

Established in 1974, the International standards Organization (ISO) is a multi-national body dedicated to woldwide agreement on international standards.

在1974年成立， 国际标准组织是一个多国别的主体，致力于广泛认同在世界交流标准。

dedicated/dediktid/ 1. [adj.] ADJ+N,

You use dedicated to describe someone who enjoys a particular activity very much and spends a lot of time doing it.

你使用dedicated去描述一些人喜欢某种特殊的活动非常，并且花费大量的时间去做它。

Her great-grandfather had clearly been a dedicated and stoical traveller.

她的祖父显然是一个敬业的、坚韧的旅客。

2. 【adj】 oft adj to n  

You use dedicated to describe something that is made, built, or designed for one particular purpose or thing.

你使用deciated去描述一些事情，被制作、建筑或者设计为了某一特殊目的或者事情。

... the world's first museum dedicated to ecology.

世界上的第一个博物馆至力于生态。

Almost three-fourths of countries in the world are represented in the ISO.

在ISO上，几乎在世界上四分之三的国家出席。

An ISO standard that covers all aspects of network communications is the Open systems Inter-connection (OSI) model.

含概了网络通讯的所有方面的一个标准是开放系统互联模型。

It was first introduced in the late 1970s.

20世纪80年代，它首次出现。

An open system is a set of protocols that allows any two different systems to communicate regardless of their underlying architeture.

一个开放系统是一系列的协议，允许任意两个不同的系统互相通信，忽略了底层的架构。