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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The new gadget, which was announced by Apple last week, and works only with the company’s computers, looks more like a large silver kitchen tile than a mouse.

这个上周苹果推出的新玩意儿只兼容苹果的电脑，它看上去不像是鼠标，倒像是厨房里的大号银色砧板。

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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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