kitchen
/ˈkɪtʃɪn/noun
1
- a room or area where food is prepared and cooked厨房。
1.1
- a set of fitments and units that are sold together and fixed in place in such a room or area一套厨具：
a fully fitted kitchen at a bargain price.
贱价出售的全套厨具。
1.2
- mass noun cuisine烹饪, 烹调：
the dried shrimp pastes of the Thai kitchen.
泰国烹饪的干虾酱。
2
- informal the percussion section of an orchestra〈非正式〉管弦乐队中的打击乐器组。
3
- as modifier(of a language) in an uneducated or domestic form（语言）不标准的, 俚俗的：
kitchen Swahili.
斯瓦希里土语。
短语
everything but the kitchen sink
- informal, humorous everything imaginable〈非正式, 幽默〉所有可想到的东西。
词源
Old English cycene, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch keuken and German Küche, based on Latin coquere 'to cook'.