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
-merism
accounts due from affiliated company
Acetylcoumarin
Aksuat
all air heat recovery system
anti-vivisectionist
apartheid
apical rosette
arteria profunda femoris
automatic base control
bathing beauties
bicmos memory circuits
biennis
bilateral Laplace transformation
bismuthic compound
bivariate normal random variable
Calabardina
calcigerous glands
came down with
chauvenets criterion
chlorophorus quinquefasciatus
chutty
circumobresistance
Clotho
conclusion of the business
conteh
cross over valve
debaptism
declutch shift shaft
deden
depilating
dichloro-hexafluorobutane
double interaction
Dromornis
dynamical heeling angle on cushion
end bulb
enjoy the esteem of others
enlightment
extract, transform and load
gouvernement
gymnospermism
hermetically-sealed instrument
heusner
hiplength
increased amount
intertransversarii laterales lumborum
Jabīsah, Jab.
knell
konhou
lavan
limiting fuse
Mandrillus
microphone equipment
mounted moldboard plow
multiinput
municipalizer
musculus opponens digiti quinti pedis
national database language
needle instrumenter
nitre (niter)
non assertive
non-motor
NOR-QD
Nuda
obukhov
oral medication
over-raucht
paroxysmal pain
partitive ablatives
phone systems
plesiotrochus acutangulus
port dues
post-plot
postmortem putrefaction
prenex
Procne
pulled your leg
pulmonary embolisms
purines
qutient
razr
redfields
single-drive pulley
sinus hepatici
speed bags
spheric wheel vehicle
stolz
straighthorn
subwatering
superconducting winding
swept gain
switching impulse voltage withstand test
tsonga
turnup
vapor-phase reactor
variable-density soundtrack
ventricular hypertrophy
vertically increased width
wfp
Wildrice
witkop-brearly-gwntry syndrome
zymoplasm