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 lot of water has gone under the bridges since.
additional estimate
aeroponic
Amera
amperometric detector
amplitude criterion
anabar r.
anyf
Ararats
batch treating
brassiest
bundu
bush violet
Ceanuri
change shifts
chaparajos
Clostridium tetanoides
condemning limit
consumerists
corrected parameter
darraigns
decay rediation
Dhenuka
dive moment
drainers
enforceable approach
equal freedom
EstPC
extra-bed factor
floor-filler
garrett
giant batch winder
gomery
good as aval
Google Apps for Education
hamonic mixer
handguards
harmonics antenna
hats off to
Heaviside function
hemocholecyst
holodikaryotic
hunts up
hydraulic hook
import surtaxes
indexibility
itriglumide
jugular venipuncture
junior keypunch operator
kagen
key spacer
knight of industry
lead hardening
Lift Every Voice and Sing
liquidity position
log-roll
meningeal hemorrhage
menthol valerate
mesh networks
metapenaeus tenuipes
micell
Needs must where the devil drives.
Neoretna
nickelling
nitrogen protection
no overhead
numerius
orajel
oxyurifuge
pantograph dividing machine
parahybos horni
penetration pile
phosphosugars
polypropylene belt
prominently
puture
radiation destruction
recordal
remarketed
seafare
semiparasitically
serial regulator
shock wave structure
sinter(ing)
six-sevenths
sphincter muscle of hepatopancreatic ampulla
spin gearing
spontaneous activity
steady allocation method
sturtup
taken advantage of
tank capacity
temporary storage register
tensa
thermoactivated
thumbtip
tool dressing
Tow Party's Duty to Mitigate Damage
toxic neprosclerosis
venae cava superior
wagon kilometers per wagon day
wardrivers