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進入中英對照讀新聞》Ikea Norway offers help with baby names after COVID-19 boom 新冠肺炎嬰兒潮 挪威宜家家居提供新生兒命名服務
挪威宜家家居新推出新生兒命名服務。（美聯社檔案照）
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Have you thought about Malm, Kivik or Trotten?
你可曾想過以馬爾姆、奇維克或卓登來命名？
Swedish retailer Ikea is known for the distinctive names of its flat-pack home products. The company’s Norway branch wants to use the experience to help parents.
瑞典家具零售商宜家家居的組合式家具，因擁有特殊名字而出名。挪威分公司希望運用這個經驗幫助天下父母。
Ikea Norway has built "a name bank" with more than 800 listings available on its website. The names are drawn from ones Ikea has given to its furniture since 1948.
挪威宜家家居已創建「名字銀行」網站，收錄超過800組名字，而這些名字都是該公司1948年後為家具產品取的名字。
Ikea usually names its products after Swedish towns, lakes and other geographical features instead of product numbers.
宜家家居經常以瑞典城鎮、湖泊和其他地理特徵為產品命名，而非使用編號。
The branch noted that while retailers saw both a shortage of raw materials and challenges with delivery times during the COVID-19 pandemic, "there is at least no shortage of children" in Norway.
挪威分公司提到，雖然零售業者在新冠肺炎期間遭遇原料短缺和配送時間挑戰，「但在挪威至少沒出現缺少小孩的狀況。」
Norway registered the births of 56,060 babies last year, or 3,081 more than in 2020.（AP）
挪威去年增加5萬6060名新生兒，比2020年多3081名。（美聯社）
新聞辭典
boom：名詞，增長。例句：It is likely to see a boom in car sales in the second half of the year.（汽車銷量今年下半年可望激增。）
distinctive：形容詞，獨特的。例句：The perfume has a distinctive smell.（這款香水氣味很特殊。）
feature：名詞，特徵。例句：Geographical features will be the focus of our tour.（觀賞自然景觀是我們這趟旅行的重點。）
