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-bombers
acne mechanica
aduice
aerial depth bomb
air dump car
Arno convertor
automatic order processing
Autospirer
bestirred
bluejacking
Brandscheid
bricket(te)
cephalispa scutellata
character zone
Chiuro
cliocinizine
cloak-and-sword
column bottoms pump
comparative resources theory
controlled temperature
conus sulcatus
couple-close roof
cross catenary suspension
dacryostenosis
Dedemsvaart
distress rates
ditch cleaning attachment
Dixarit
edge-restraint condition
efferosome
empirical cumulative distribution function
Evolved Packet Core
FCL cargo
FGC
first council of constantinoples
foot press
frictional stiffness
froehling
galer
geared ladle hoist
German paste
guard duty
hamartomas
induced failure
inheres in
intuitionistic mathematics
It depends.
joynes
king mark
lateral palpebral raphe
Ligamenta intercarpalia dorsalia
lindeberg-levy theorem
low grade ore
lower-Jiao
Lutherian
marine abrasion landform
miscord
miss the point of something
money-system
Mullaley
neoprene gasket
new chip
nomen deminutivum
nonamphoteric
octonary signalling
operation in storage
p.o
path diagram
permissible limit of vibration
permissible orbit
Phenylisohydantoin
powder blowing-in technique
pseudo-Hurler polydystrophy
quantized computer
radiable
raftmen
renovation
right-sized
road trips
runkel
schwne
screaming loudest
slide damper
slip stick
spherical antenna
steaming out line
subshift
techology
terminal room
test session
the growing parts of the plants
threshold velocity
timber jack
transverse conjunctiva
two-colour
ursus arctos middendorffis
Verfremdungseffect
veterinary hygiene
vikel
Vorotynsk
wildcatter
ylvas