Ikea furniture is like a metaphor for life.

宜家家具就像生的隐喻。

Does the furniture from IKEA cost a lot?

宜家的家具贵吗？

With its clean lines and practical pieces, Ikea has outfitted millions of college apartments and brought a Scandinavian aesthetic into everyday homes.

凭借其简洁的线条及其实用的零部件，宜家家具装点了数百万的大学公寓，并把一种斯堪的纳维亚风格美学带入了寻常百姓家。

Unlike most furniture retailers that sell products preassembled, many of Ikea's pieces have to be built by their customers.

与大多数销售预装产品的家具零售商不同，宜家的许多家具须由客户自己组装。

But scientists soon realized that genetic maps were less like an instruction manual and more like the parts catalog you get with Ikea furniture.

但科学家们很快意识到，基因图谱不太像一本说明书，而更像是宜家家具的零件目录。

Yes, and I get my ya-yas from IKEA.

没错 而且我是" 宜家" 家具商场买的。

" It's like the main name when I think about furniture, " said Archie, 34, from the Bronx, New York.

" 只要想到家具，宜家这个名字就会占据我脑海里。"

The comments met with ridicule on Twitter with people listing imaginary situations including the former pop group Aba and the furniture giant IKEA.

这些社交网站推特上遭遇讽刺，人们列举了许多虚构的场景，包括前流行乐团Aba和家具巨头宜家。

For the prisoners who worked on Ikea furniture, the recognition was what they wanted, but it may also open the way for legal claims.World News from the BBC

对那些曾宜家家具厂工作的囚犯来说，这样的承认正是他们想要的，但他们可能为他们提出合法要求提供了条件。

This system is highly dependent on us trusting complete strangers: we get into their cars, sleep in their beds, invite them into our homes to assemble IKEA furniture, and message them to watch our pets.

共享体系极其要求我们相信素不相识的陌生人，例如：坐陌生人的汽车、借宿陌生人家中、请陌生人到自己家组装宜家家具、让陌生人帮忙照看宠物。

And would Nate Archibald really have wanted to date me if he knew I lived above a bodega in a fifth floor walk-up with fluorescent lights and IKEA furniture I put together myself?

如果内特尼尔·阿齐布尔德知道了我住一座五层无电梯的酒店里里面是荧光灯管 我自己组合的宜家的家具他还会和我约会吗？