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《中英對照讀新聞》Gaza calling：ringtone exports evade blockade Gaza calling：ringtone exports evade blockade 加薩呼喚：出口手機鈴聲來規避封鎖
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Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip not only restricts imports to the enclave but has also crushed traditional exports like fruit, flowers, furniture and ceramics.
以色列封鎖加薩走廊不僅對進口至這塊飛地的商品設限，同時更重創了當地傳統的出口貿易如水果、鮮花、家具與陶器等。
But a year after a war between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas Islamist rulers and the 4-year-old blockade firmly in place, some Palestinian entrepreneurs are turning to the Internet to gain access to new foreign markets.
但在以色列與加薩走廊的哈瑪斯伊斯蘭統治者之間的戰爭爆發一年後，以色列對加薩所實施的四年封鎖措施仍舊未解除，部份巴勒斯坦企業家轉而透過網路來打進新的外國市場。
Haitham Abu Shaaban of Tatweer Business Services, working with a local recording studio, has a new contract with Dubai telecoms company du to make personalized cell phone ringtones that he hopes will sell well across the Arab world.
Tatweer商業服務公司的阿布沙班正與當地的錄音室合作，他跟杜拜的du電信公司簽署了生產客製化手機鈴聲的新合約，希望能夠在全阿拉伯世界大賣。
"The fact that Gaza has been under siege has stopped us from developing exports. But we thought there was a way around this," said Abu Shaaban. Gaza singers are lining up at the studios to record ringtone songs in a variety of styles, from rap to jazz.
「加薩受到圍困使我們無法發展出口市場，但我們認為一定有解決的辦法，」阿布沙班表示。加薩走廊的歌手們正在錄音室裡排隊，等著錄製從饒舌樂到爵士樂等各種風格的歌曲。
"We have taken forward the export of services through contracting local companies to export their work to other companies in the Middle East through the available tools, which is mainly, currently the Internet," Abu Shaaban said.
「我們與本地公司簽約，把他們的作品透過可用的工具，目前主要也就是靠網路，出口到中東地區的其他公司，藉此提供服務出口，」阿布沙班說。
新聞辭典
enclave： 名詞，飛地（指在本國境內、隸屬另一國的一塊領土），如The republic of San Marino is an enclave of Italy.（聖馬利諾共和國位於義大利境內。）或指在更大範圍內一塊界線分明的較小區域，如an ethnic enclaves in a large city.（大城市裡的各種族聚集地）
siege：名詞，指圍攻、圍困，The soldiers laid siege to （= started a siege of） the city.（士兵們開始包圍這座城市。）亦可指（疾病等）長期折磨，如a siege of asthma.（長期為氣喘所苦）。
blockade：名詞，指封鎖、阻礙，如The Soviet blockade of Berlin was lifted in May 1949.（蘇聯對柏林的封鎖於1949年5月解除。）亦可做動詞。
blockade
noun [C]
when a country or place is surrounded by soldiers or ships to stop people or goods from going in or out:
an air and sea blockade
The Soviet blockade of Berlin was lifted in May 1949.
There is still some hope that the economic blockade will work and make military intervention unnecessary.
blockade
verb [T]
The Estonian port of Tallinn was blockaded for a time by Soviet warships.
strand1
━━ n. 〔詩〕 岸.
━━ v. 座礁させる［する］; 立ち往生する; 困（らせ）る.
strand・ed ━━ a. どうしようもなくなって.
━━ v. 座礁させる［する］; 立ち往生する; 困（らせ）る.
strand・ed ━━ a. どうしようもなくなって.stranded
adjective
unable to leave somewhere because of an inconvenience such as a lack of transport or money:
He left me stranded in town with no car and no money for a bus.
If the tide comes in, we'll be stranded on these rocks.
n.
The land bordering a body of water; a beach.
strand
v., strand·ed, strand·ing, strands. v.tr.
- To drive or run ashore or aground.
- To bring into or leave in a difficult or helpless position: The convoy was stranded in the desert.
- Baseball. To leave (a base runner) on base at the end of an inning.
- Linguistics. To separate (a grammatical element) from other elements in a construction, either by moving it out of the construction or moving the rest of the construction. In the sentence What are you aiming at, the preposition at has been stranded.
- To be driven or run ashore or aground.
- To be brought into or left in a difficult or helpless position.
[Middle English, from Old English.]
strand2 (strănd)
n.
- A complex of fibers or filaments that have been twisted together to form a cable, rope, thread, or yarn.
- A single filament, such as a fiber or thread, of a woven or braided material.
- A wisp or tress of hair.
- Something that is plaited or twisted as a ropelike length: a strand of pearls; a strand of DNA.
- One of the elements woven together to make an intricate whole, such as the plot of a novel.
- To make or form (a rope, for example) by twisting strands together.
- To break a strand of (a rope, for example).
[Middle English strond.]
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