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单词 kitchen sink
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kitchen sink in British English

noun
1. 
a sink in a kitchen for washing dishes, vegetables, etc
2.  everything but the kitchen sink
3. (modifier)
denoting a type of drama or painting of the 1950s depicting the sordid aspects of domestic reality

kitchen-sink in British English

(ˌkɪtʃɪnˈsɪŋk)
adjective
theatre, art informal
denoting a type of drama or painting of the 1950s depicting the sordid aspects ofdomestic reality
The film owes some of its best moments to kitchen-sink realism.
It is less a kitchen-sink tragi-comedy than a smugly bourgeois caricature of inner-cityDublin life.

kitchen-sink in American English

(ˈkɪtʃənˈsɪŋk)
adjective
1. 
showing a lack of discriminating thought or careful planning; random; indiscriminate
his kitchen-sink collection of souvenirs
2.  Chiefly British
portraying life, esp. domestic situations, with realism that emphasizes the negative or sordid aspects

Examples of 'kitchen sink' in a sentence
kitchen sink

The boot space is more than 600 litres and by folding the rear seats you can carry the kitchen sink and the kitchen.
The Sun (2006)
And if you plan on transporting the kitchen sink, it can tow up to 3.5 tonnes.
The Sun (2016)
They had dabbled in kitchen-sink realism.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Nothing much happens in this kitchen-sink classic, but it is still magnetic.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Lovelorn kitchen-sink vignettes of the first order from the Manchester trio.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
But to his dismay, it had been taken over by the new wave of kitchen-sink drama.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)

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kitchen sink

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Chinese translation of 'kitchen sink'

kitchen sink

n (c)

  1. 厨(廚)房洗涤(滌)池 (chúfáng xǐdíchí) (种(種), zhǒng)

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