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
active mediated transport
algebraick
All made fast!
altocumulus informis
Amazonianist
ambiguity diagram
analysis by elutriation
any publicity is good publicity
aquid
articulartion
as welcome as snow in harvest
bedway
biaxial crystal pleochroism
blue-ground
built-in software delay
bulk bread
by-lined
callback strategy
chemotherapeutic potentiator
Chile Chico
clavams
co pilot
concrete spreading
conditional average risk
contact-metamorphic
core stored
cortical cell
cost plus basis
crabwiser
Dachsenhausen
dicument
Down in the Valley
ecomog
epigenic sediment
erase pulse
flanging quality material
foliated cobordant
FSCC
full-bridge inverter
green mountainss
grinding base
Heterodon
hyperchromicity
inert gases
inert resin
insusceptive
Klingerstown
leucomanganite
Mastodontidae
Mbumbusi
metamorphosing breath sound
multiple instruction single-data stream system
Myanmar
Neoparalaelaps
noise assignment
non-cyclic phosphorylation
Nsang
on campaign
one-energy-storage network
OREF
over-the-toppery
panel lighting
peakiest
pediadontist
pitch apple
plesiosette
pot holes
Pottiaceae
progressive mutation
pulse lamp
ran the gamut
RCFC (reactor containment fan cooler)
rebbeck
reform weave
regulation failure
relative moisture content
riddifords
rolling machine
sales goal
Sankhya
Selāng
silicon wafer integration
singular pencil
sits by
situation-action system
sld-fiber coupling
south bound
steam generator tube rupture accident
sulphuret
supercompactor
symmetrical triangular shock pulse
tetrahedral element characteristic
train voice communication
trilobatus
unhindered
unshrinkable film
valve tappet roller
vermuyden
volume bottles
whatling
Yegros
yermosol