Pronounced /'bʌfeɪ, am bʊ'feɪ/ for meanings 1 to 3, and /'bʌfɪt/ for meanings 4 and 5. 义项1至3读作 /'bʌfeɪ, 美 bʊ'feɪ/,义项4和5读作 /'bʌfɪt/。
1
[N-COUNT 可数名词]自助餐 A
buffet is a meal of cold food that is displayed on a long table at a party or public occasion. Guests usually serve themselves from the table.
...a buffet lunch...
自助午餐
A cold buffet had been laid out in the dining-room.
餐厅里已经摆好了自助冷食。
2
[N-COUNT 可数名词](通常指旅馆或车站的)餐饮部,小餐馆 A
buffet is a café, usually in a hotel or station.
We sat in the station buffet sipping tea.
我们坐在车站的自助餐厅里喝茶。
3
[N-COUNT 可数名词](火车上的)餐车 On a train, the
buffet or the
buffet car is the carriage or car where meals and snacks are sold.
in AM, use 美国英语用 dining car
4
[VERB 动词](大风或海浪)反复拍打,猛击 If something
is buffeted by strong winds or by stormy seas, it is repeatedly struck or blown around by them.
Their plane had been severely buffeted by storms...
他们的飞机遭受到风暴的重创。
Storms swept the country, closing roads, buffeting ferries and killing as many as 30 people.
暴风雨席卷全国,使道路无法通行,渡船受袭,多达30人遇难。
buffeting...the buffetings of the winds.
风的袭击
5
[VERB 动词](严峻局势)冲击,打击 If an economy or government
is buffeted by difficult or unpleasant situations, it experiences many of them.
The whole of Africa had been buffeted by social and political upheavals.
整个非洲都经受了社会和政治动荡之苦。