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
a priori information
agelike
aminoacetones
architectural thermal engineering
armed bands
basilaminar
Basildon
bottom position
brack-ened
capecitabine
CDNB
change of trade name
Chanukah
chardon
chinsed
Circum-Pacific Tectonic Region
claw-and-ball foot
clostridial myonecroses
compatible peripheral device
complete secondary course
compound glass tube
conscope
cough and a spit
dalmatica
decampers
dysthelasia
engine-overhaul
esodic nerve
excursionized
Fi.fa
first hand information
fly one's own kite
green productivity
gyro angle transmitter
had in
happy Independence Day
high tension shackle insulator
holohedral form
hydromagnetic propulsion
hypertechnological
indices of a point
inpolar conic
interrenalopathy
isobar model
Laives
lbf.s
leakage measuring instrumentation
lemon chrome
Lomu
loubarb
lymphocytopoietic
material misrepresentation
moorbird
mosaic glass
Narusawa
neighborhood plays
one-blade
open-air plant
ophicalsite
Owen County
Pakotai
Park Grove
paw foot
peak broadening
per capita assets
pursuing
radial crushing strength test
radial well
read control register
refudiating
rnt
rodgersia sambucitolia hemsl.
shredded wood-fiber board
simple screen management protocol
sinopites
Sint-Maria-Latem
Slide Gate Valve
solid waste management statistics
squalidin
staphylorhaphies
steam-operated air ejector
terminator sequence
test_modes
the last post
thyrses
tocusso
tongue and groove face flange
Trees Mills
umbeschewed
uniformly definite subspace
unobserving
untranslateable
up-bow
user interface tailoring
vector angle
weissinger
white stock
who writes this stuff
Zeugenberg
zoozoo