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A DDoS is an attack on a website or online service. The letters stand for distributed denial of service. Many computers, often spread around the world, send so much traffic at once that the site becomes slow or falls over, and real users cannot get in.
A DDoS isDDoS 是 an attack on a website or online service一種針對網站或線上服務的攻擊。The letters stand for這幾個字母代表的是 distributed denial of servicedistributed denial of service（分散式阻斷服務）。Many computers, often spread around the world,很多台電腦，常常分散在世界各地 send so much traffic at once同時發送大量流量 that the site becomes painfully slow or falls over,讓網站慢到不行、甚至整個掛掉 and real users cannot get in真正的使用者反而進不去。
The usual aim is to block, not to sneak in and steal. Distributed is the important part: it is not one angry computer; it is a crowd.
The usual aim is to通常的目的是 block, not to sneak in and steal把網站擋住，不是要偷偷溜進去偷東西。Distributed isDistributed（分散式） the important part:是這個字裡最重要的部分 it is not one angry computer; it is a crowd不是一台生氣的電腦，而是一大群。
Though actually, people in gaming and tech news treat DDoS as an ordinary noun: they hit us with a DDoS. Informal tech English. You will see DDoS or DDOS.
Though actually,不過其實 people in gaming and tech news treat DDoS as an ordinary noun:遊戲圈和科技新聞會把 DDoS 當成普通名詞用 they hit us with a DDoS像是說 they hit us with a DDoS。Informal tech English科技圈的口語用法。You will see你會看到 DDoS or DDOS.DDoS 或 DDOS 兩種寫法。
It is serious when a shop or a hospital site goes down; it is also, sadly, something some people boast about in games.
It is serious when a shop or a hospital site goes down;商店或醫院的網站被打掛時，這是很嚴重的事 it is also, sadly, something some people boast about in games但可惜的是，也有人會拿它在遊戲裡炫耀。
組成Abbreviation of distributed denial of service. Denial of service means shutting people out by overloading the service. Distributed means the attack comes from many machines at once, not one.
同家族的字
- DoSdenial of service — DDoS is the distributed kind, from many computers at once
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
DDoSnoun/ˈdiːˌdɒs/
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A distributed denial-of-service attack, one that originates from many different (geographically and network topographically) sources, on a network of networks such as the Internet.
- Some bots help refresh your Facebook feed or figure out how to rank Google search results; other bots impersonate humans and carry out devastating DDoS attacks.
DDoSverb/ˈdiːˌdɒs/
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To attack by DDoS.
- Stuart Staniford, president of Silicon Defense in Eureka, Calif., notes, however, that if the zombie computers “had a long target list and a control mechanism to allow dynamic retargeting, [they] could have DDoSed servers used to map addresses to contact information, the ones used to distribute patches, the ones belonging to companies that analyze worms or distribute incident response information.[…]”
- On February 9, 2000, web sites such as Yahoo! and CNN were DDoSed off the Internet, mostly by spoofed smurf attacks.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。