kitchen sink英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

A sink in a kitchen used for washing crockery, cutlery, utensils, food, etc., and disposing of waste.

— The kitchen sink was piled high with dirty dishes.
A miscellaneous item or a miscellany, especially exemplifying an indiscriminate profusion. also,attributive,figuratively

— They threw the kitchen sink at the problem, but still couldn’t fix it.
In chained or tied to the kitchen sink, etc.: domestic chores or housework, especially when regarded as menial and tedious. figuratively,metonymically
A thing regarded as defiled due to corruption, immorality, etc. figuratively,obsolete

— Jack used to be a clever man, though I say so who shouldn't. Government has eaten him up. All his ideas and powers of conversation—he really used to be a good talker, even to his wife, in the old days—are taken from him by this—this kitchen-sink of a Government. That's the case with every man up here who is at work.

动词 v.

To make (something) overly complicated or elaborate; to overcomplicate, to overwork. UK,transitive
To raise to (someone) unrelated complaints and other matters during an argument. UK,transitive
To release (a large amount of information about the poor financial results of a company) in one go, in the hope that there will be less impact. UK,transitive
To raise unrelated complaints and other matters during an argument. UK,intransitive

形容词 adj.

Of or pertaining to a mid-20th-century realist style of painting in Britain characterized by scenes of dull or untidy domestic interiors such as kitchens in the homes of urban working-class people; also, of or pertaining to an artist or group of artists painting in this style. UK,not-comparable

— It is evident that neither objectivity nor abstraction is the aim of the young painters of the kitchen-sink school.
Of or pertaining to a mid-20th-century (especially 1950s–1960s) genre of drama, fiction, etc., in Britain depicting the harsh lives of working-class people; also, of or pertaining to a film, novel, play, etc., of this genre. UK,broadly,not-comparable

词形变化

kitchen sinks plural kitchen sinks present,singular,third-person kitchen sinking participle,present kitchen sinked participle,past kitchen sinked past

词汇关系

衍生词

everything but the kitchen sink kitchen-sinkery kitchen-sinking kitchen sink regression kitchen-sinky

词源

词源 1

The noun is derived from kitchen + sink. Sense 2.1 (“miscellaneous item or miscellany”) is probably from everything but the kitchen sink.
The adjective is derived from the noun. Sense 1 (“of or pertaining to a realist style of painting characterized by scenes of dull or untidy domestic interiors of urban working-class people”) was coined by the British art critic David Sylvester (1924–2001) in a December 1954 article entitled “The Kitchen Sink”: see the quotation.
The verb is a back-formation from kitchen-sinking (noun), which is derived from the noun.

词源 2

The noun is derived from kitchen + sink. Sense 2.1 (“miscellaneous item or miscellany”) is probably from everything but the kitchen sink.
The adjective is derived from the noun. Sense 1 (“of or pertaining to a realist style of painting characterized by scenes of dull or untidy domestic interiors of urban working-class people”) was coined by the British art critic David Sylvester (1924–2001) in a December 1954 article entitled “The Kitchen Sink”: see the quotation.
The verb is a back-formation from kitchen-sinking (noun), which is derived from the noun.

词源 3

The noun is derived from kitchen + sink. Sense 2.1 (“miscellaneous item or miscellany”) is probably from everything but the kitchen sink.
The adjective is derived from the noun. Sense 1 (“of or pertaining to a realist style of painting characterized by scenes of dull or untidy domestic interiors of urban working-class people”) was coined by the British art critic David Sylvester (1924–2001) in a December 1954 article entitled “The Kitchen Sink”: see the quotation.
The verb is a back-formation from kitchen-sinking (noun), which is derived from the noun.