时间:2018-12-28 作者:英语课 分类:世界名牌博览


英语课

宜家的创始人英格瓦.坎普拉德出生在瑞典南部的斯马兰。


IKEA is a Swedish furniture and home products retailer 1 that has stores all over the world. It is famous for well-priced flat pack furniture that customers assemble at home. It also sells accessories and bathroom and kitchen items. It is the world's largest furniture retailer. IKEA was started in 1943 by 17-year-old Ingvar Kamprad from Elmtaryd in Agunnaryd, South Sweden. The IKEA acronym 2 comes from the initials of the founder 3 and the places he grew up. The company operates over 300 stores as franchises 4 in 37 countries. It has over 12,000 products in its catalogue. The company employs over 125,000 people worldwide. IKEA’s vision is “to create a better everyday life for the many people…by offering a wide range of well-designed, functional 5 home furnishing products at prices so low that as many people as possible will be able to afford them”.


 



1 retailer
n.零售商(人)
  • What are the retailer requirements?零售商会有哪些要求呢?
  • The retailer has assembled a team in Shanghai to examine the question.这家零售商在上海组建了一支团队研究这个问题。
2 acronym
n.首字母简略词,简称
  • That's a mouthful of an acronym for a very simple technology.对于一项非常简单的技术来说,这是一个很绕口的缩写词。
  • TSDF is an acronym for Treatment, Storage and Disposal Facilities.TSDF是处理,储存和处置设施的一个缩写。
3 Founder
n.创始者,缔造者
  • He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
  • According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说,罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。
4 franchises
n.(尤指选举议员的)选举权( franchise的名词复数 );参政权;获特许权的商业机构(或服务);(公司授予的)特许经销权v.给…以特许权,出售特许权( franchise的第三人称单数 )
  • TV franchises will be auctioned to the highest bidder. 电视特许经营权将拍卖给出价最高的投标人。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Ford dealerships operated as independent franchises. 福特汽车公司的代销商都是独立的联营商。 来自辞典例句
5 functional
adj.为实用而设计的,具备功能的,起作用的
  • The telephone was out of order,but is functional now.电话刚才坏了,但现在可以用了。
  • The furniture is not fancy,just functional.这些家具不是摆着好看的,只是为了实用。
学英语单词
Abide by a decision
absorbing quality
aiello calabro
aperiodic wave
bags cover stained by wet
Ban Saen To
biopreparations
biphosphonate
brachypinakoid
Broad-Church
burgum (bergum)
casinghead tank
changes of location
Chasalia
chronic myelocytic leukemias
churn drill
cisgene
coccidiomycosis
consistencies
contact over travel
continens
contingency-based
culkin
dark forest soil
depositional environment map
diaplarthrous
disintegrating method
diversivolent
dreamest
Eagle Depot
Eat,drink and be merry,for tomorrow we die.
environment pollution
Eurobank
European high-rate aeration
Feugasite
filmy ferns
flexuous
gallanture
gallicised
gets high
gum spirits of turpentine
harm a hair on sb's head
hog hook spreader
hoot and holler
hovels
hydraulic rock breaker
hypertime
ignorant end of tape
impertinence, impertinency
indirect leads
indoanilines
intra-class correlation coefficient
kiramodulus lacteus
Lasche value
macroscopicvoid
maoricardium setosum
meaningfulnesses
Menger sponge
Mettmach
mieth
minimum staining reclaim
modal ethics
monacrosporium eudermatum
morard
natural glue
Neolitsea purpurascens
none other
normal width
optical model
Orchard Street
parcelled
pharmaceutical affairs statistics
Placido's disk
plaster-water ratio
preloading of the bolt
Q-value
red-lines
reinput
reinspect
review of operation
rigid insulator
rostone
self leveling shoe
self-immunity
soft wheat
split tax
stackelberg
system of differential operators
take its
talk, etc. nineteen to the dozen
tank valve
tetrasilicane
theory of mantle convection
toelken
TRMC
twycrosses
ultrasonic spectrum
until statement
vector electro-oculogram
ventricular veins
vitriol plant
Yebu