来源：《卫报》
原文刊登日期：2021年11月29日
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Lego, the world’s largest toymaker, has awarded its 20,000 employees three extra days of holiday and a special bonus after a year of bumper revenues.
全球最大的玩具制造商乐高玩具公司在一年的丰厚收入后，已向其2万名员工额外发放了三天假期和特别奖金。
The succession of pandemic-forced lockdowns has seen demand for Lego’s signature plastic bricks soar. “The owner family wishes to … thank all colleagues with an extra three days off at the end of 2021,” the Danish company said in a statement.
疫情导致的一连串封锁使得乐高特色鲜明的塑料积木需求飙升。这家丹麦公司在一份声明中表示：“老板家族希望……感谢所有同事，他们将在2021年底多放三天假。”
The family group, which is not listed on any stock exchange, reported a net profit of more than 6.3bn Danish kronor ($954m) for the first half of 2021 – an increase of 140% on the same period in 2020. Revenues shot up 46% to 23bn kronor in the same period.
这家没有在任何证券交易所上市的家族集团报告称，2021年上半年净利润超过63亿丹麦克朗(合9.54亿美元)，比2020年同期增长140%。同期收入增长46%，达到230亿瑞典克朗。
It had been “an extraordinary year for the Lego Group and our colleagues have worked incredibly hard”, the statement said, adding that an unspecified special bonus would be paid to staff in April 2022.
声明称，这是“乐高集团不同寻常的一年，我们的同事们付出了难以置信的努力”，并补充称，将于2022年4月向员工发放未具体说明的特别奖金。
With families stuck at home for long periods, Lego said all its market groups delivered double-digit consumer sales growth with products “which appealed to builders of all ages and interests”. Top-performing themes included Lego City, Lego Star Wars, and Lego Harry Potter, while ambitious builders can also tackle a 9,090-piece model of the doomed ship RMS Titanic which retails for $629.99.
乐高表示，由于家庭长期滞留在家中，乐高旗下所有市场群体的产品都实现了两位数的消费增长，其产品“吸引了所有年龄段和兴趣爱好的积木玩家”。表现最好的主题包括乐高城市、乐高星球大战和乐高哈利波特，而有野心的积木玩家还可以搭建由9090块积木组成的最终沉没的泰坦尼克号模型，其零售价为629.99美元。
The group opened more than 60 new branded stores in the first half of 2021. This brings the total number of Lego retail stores as of 30 June, to 737.
乐高集团在2021年上半年开设了60多家新品牌门店。截至6月30日，乐高零售店总数达到737家。
Lego, a contraction of the Danish for “play well” (Leg godt), was founded in 1932 by Kirk Kristiansen, whose family still controls the group which employs about 20,400 people in 40 countries.
乐高是丹麦语“玩得好”的缩写，由柯克·克里斯蒂安森于1932年创立，其家族至今仍控制着乐高集团。乐高集团在40个国家拥有约20400名员工。