a room in which meals are cooked or prepared 厨房 
We ate at the kitchen table. 我们在厨房里的桌子上吃饭。 the kitchen floor/window/door 厨房地板/窗户/门 a stainless steel kitchen sink 不锈钢厨房水槽 He stabbed her with a kitchen knife. 他用菜刀刺伤了她。 - (especially British English)
The house has a fully fitted kitchen with custom-built units. 这所房子有一个设备齐全的厨房，配有定制单元。
Extra Examplessee also soup kitchenTopics Houses and homesa1, Cooking and eatinga1I sat at the kitchen island eating a bowl of cereal. 我坐在厨房岛台边上吃着一碗麦片。 We handed our trays through the kitchen hatch as we left. 我们离开时从厨房小窗口递进盘子。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- clean
- spotless
- modern
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- area
- door
- floor
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- in a/the kitchen
Word OriginOld English cycene, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch keuken and German Küche, based on Latin coquere ‘to cook’.
Idioms
everything but the kitchen sink
- (informal, humorous)
a very large number of things, probably more than is necessary 过多的东西；大量的东西 We seem to take everything but the kitchen sink when we go camping. 我们去野营时，似乎除了厨房的水槽什么都带走了。
if you can’t stand the heat (get out of the kitchen)
- (informal)
used to tell somebody to stop trying to do something if they find it too difficult, especially in order to suggest that they are less able than other people 如果感到太困难（就别干了）