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
accelerometrically
Aerobid
aerosol immunity
alicias
allowance for low per capita income
ambasciatori
amphitheatres
ancitabine
antennal club
anti jamming
area of draw
as clear as a bell
automatic repetition system
automatic towing machine
Badarian culture
ball-buster
bearng scraper
check scale
cinnamoyloxyphenylurea
clutch slippage
comeuppances
compression diffuser
continuous dilution
cross reference to each other
CSGN
cubiclized
Davidoff's(Davidov's)cells
dialoguers
division of labor
eichhornia crassipes solms
elevensies
first-aid apparatus
flywheel (momentum wheel)
Friedel and Crafts' systhesis
geodesic parallel coordinates
glued wood
good continuation
gouty arthritis
hattat
high-temperature coaxial cable
hippoglossus stenolepses
input limiter
iodohydrin
Kasli
keratophre
Khoisan language
Koesters stain
Lammhult
limbergers
limits and fits
Linear A
magnetic surface state
manderson
Marmolada, Gruppo della
metalliferous veins
microproject
misvoting
mres
musculus procerus
neighborhood processing
official mission
Oldendorf
PAC (plasma arc cutting)
pig's wash
pintable
piriqualone
pleurotreme
postpoliomyelitis
potassium iron(iii) tartrate
quefrency domain
radio communication for track maintenance
rain reflectivity
range control system
rapid decay phosphor
rayon alpaca
real-time operation true-time operation
rectal perfusion
red-claier
reseparates
reversing plasma arc welding process
riffy
sceondary breaker
Sd-TMP
securities finance company
selcall
social deprivation
solenidal lens
Strathmore
subpolynomial
surge of reciprocating pump
tee flex spanner T
titanium(iii) sulfate
transient planetary wave
troop the colour
twig cutting
uk -coloured
under axial loading
uredo morifolia
wind slab
young lady
Zhanaozen