為什麼中國人喜歡去宜家睡覺大綱

When browsing coffee tables, kitchen cabinets and dessert plates becomes too exhausting at an Ikea store in China, feel free to pass out under a deliciously cozy Flöng duvet or across a Storå loft bed — right in the showroom.

在中國的宜家(Ikea)門店選購茶几、櫥櫃和甜點盤時，如果累到精疲力竭，大可以蓋着超級舒適的福隆(Flöng)羽絨被或者躺在施託洛(Storå)高架牀上小憩一會兒——就在展廳內。

You will be in good company.

你不會是唯一一個這樣做的人。

At Ikea’s 21 stores across China, customers (and those simply looking for some climate-controlled shut-eye) have no qualms about getting comfortable on the display furniture

在中國各地的21家宜家門店裏，消費者（以及只是想在有空調的地方睡上一覺的那些人）會毫無顧忌地利用樣品傢俱把自己照顧得舒舒服服的。

The madding crowd or a stranger already slumbering in the same bed is, the Chinese will tell you, no obstacle to a good nap.

中國人會告訴你，熙熙攘攘的人流，或者已經睡在同一張牀上的陌生人，並不會妨礙你美美地眯上一會兒。

The Chinese ability to sleep wherever, whenever, is something of a national pastime.

中國人天賦異稟，可以在任何地點、任何時間入睡，而且這幾乎是一項全國性的消遣。

Citizens can be found dozing off, sometimes in bizarre contortions, in supermarkets, on playground equipment, on the backs of mopeds, under parked vehicles and on Ikea display beds.

超市裏、操場的設施上、機動自行車的後座上、停放的車輛下，以及宜家的樣品牀上，打盹兒的人隨處可見，有時候姿態頗為怪異。

But why limit oneself to beds when so many couches and chairs are beckoning?

不過，當那麼多沙發和椅子向你招手的時候，為什麼要把自己侷限在牀上呢？

While snoozing is prohibited at Ikea stores elsewhere, the Swedish retailer has long permitted Chinese customers to doze off, rather than alienate shoppers accustomed to sleeping in public.

其他國家和地區的宜家門店均禁止消費者在店內睡覺，但這家瑞典零售商一直允許中國消費者在店內小憩，因為它不想疏遠習慣於在公共場合睡覺的顧客們。

Last year, the Chinese state news media reported that the company was planning to crack down on impolite behavior by waking nappers who had removed their shoes or snuggled under the covers.

中國官方媒體去年報道，宜家計劃嚴禁不禮貌行為，會叫醒脱掉鞋子或者窩在被子裏的小睡者。

But those rules were never enforced, perhaps because Ikea believes that a nation of a billion consumers who sleep in its shops will someday decide to take that furniture home.

但這些規定從未強制推行，或許是因為宜家覺得，在這個有十億消費者的國度裏，在其門店內入睡的人，有朝一日會做出把傢俱帶回家的決定。