The centrally placed kitchen works as a living room.

中间的厨房充当起一个起居室。

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Cleaning my kitchen really works off frustration if I've had a fight with someone.

假如我与人发生了争执，打扫厨房的确会消除沮丧。

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ST, the caretaker employed to keep the place clean, allowedsome users to keep their 'works' (needles) in his kitchen.

雇来打扫卫生的看门人ST允许一些用户把自己的“工具”（针）存在他的厨房。

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Meanwhile, the Finsbury Square crowd is having trouble getting sleep, says Marek Cichon, 19, who works in the kitchen.

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To show me how a Cheesecake Factory works, he took me into the kitchen of his busiest restaurant, at Prudential Center, a shopping and convention hub.

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When Donziger is not in Ecuador, he works out of the paper-strewn kitchen of a two-bedroom apartment that he shares with his wife and young son, on the Upper West Side.

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