Which makes it odd that the kitchen has become the heart of the modern house: what the great hall was to the medieval castle, the kitchen is to the 21st-century home.

这使得厨房成为现代住宅的核心这件事变得很奇怪：厨房对于21世纪的家庭来说，就像大厅之于中世纪城堡的意义。

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The sharma family live in a modern house.

沙玛一家住在一个现在化的房子里。

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The modern house life is a kind of free style, a comfortable and warm feeling, also o kind optional beauty.

现代家居，应是一种自由的方式，一种舒适的温暖感觉，同时也是一种随意的美丽。

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In American, you can move away, far away for a better job or for a better, more modern house.

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They have lived there all their married life but now plan to buy a more modern house with their lottery winnings.

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Dharun Ravi grew up in Plainsboro, New Jersey, in a large, modern house with wide expanses of wood flooring and a swimming pool out back.

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