Manufacturers often label new gadgets as "breakthroughs," claiming that they are superior replacements for the older version that's in your kitchen.

制造商经常标榜他们的小工具是“突破性的”，宣称它们将完全替代你厨房中的旧工具。

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But a Pleistocene version of the scene in my kitchen, with ground cassava roots instead of pancakes, might be more accurate, if less exciting.

然而，我厨房中那个更新世版本的场景或许会更准确，如果它看起来并没那么激动人心的话，另外这次，薄饼被木薯根粉所替代。

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Some of the priciest hand-built English kitchens today are a cleaner, less fussy, often Shaker-inspired, version of the farmhouse kitchen.

今天，一些最昂贵的手工建造的英国厨房都是农家厨房的一个更干净、 更少讲究，通常是震教派风格（Shaker-inspired）的翻版。

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But a Pleistocene version of the scene in my kitchen, with ground cassava roots instead of pancakes, might be more accurate, if less exciting.

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It'll be available in black this April, with a white version following in June -- consider it the company's take on bedside or kitchen speaker that you'd normally see from Sony or Harman.

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