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
accident repeater
affiliate
agnosis
angiocardiopeumography
arly
Audio channels
b&pv (boiler and pressure vessel)
bakeoffs
bcc'd
beaded counter
Bellaneeny
benrubi
body-languages
bridgehead mercurial
Brisbane River
cavogram
Caxitoré
cemeterys
chain and flight type stationary elevator
Chalfont St Giles
chromatophobia
coarse sand
Codivilla's operation
comprador's capital
conic orthermorphic projection
coughing of phlegm
DEH (digital electro-hydraulic control system)
diazotizating
disarrangement
double private bank
dupondii
eseroline
evan-thomas
Fairy Water
fracking it
fuckfriend
geodynamic history
geographical relic species
geotectonic structure
germinal cell aplasia
go trogenic
gotten those
graphic procedure
Gross Ippener
Hamoyet, Jab.(Hamoyet)
hematolin
Henry Valentine Miller
hexapody
high sensibility tester
hotelier
hydrangenol
international safety management (ism) code
IOUD
Kantaurovo
kitchen suppers
lateral member
laterotergite
Mallorcans
manganostilpno-melane(parsettensite)
marine affairs
Massafra
Memecylon luchuenense
Mendocino, L.
midlenting
Mon-Arsone
moulded peat
new method
nonbony
obj
off ... legs
organic microanalysis
osteological surgery
pennant staff
Poa tristis
programmable text editing system
protrusive equilibration
rail pressure limiter
repetitive pulses
ronald reagans
seborrheic folliculitis
self-determinism
sex-determination
sgwd
solar-flare forecast
somnificant
stomach greater curvature
stoveful
strengthier
thiamin hydrochloride
transhipment enroute
tributor
triphenylmethane dye
tunny boat
ultrasonic bonding machine
unbalanced data link
under cloud of night
upper half of plane
Uraria neglecta
use full page
varistors
Yenantha
Yenbo