buffet
n
1 counter where food and drink may be bought and consumed, esp in a railway station or on a train 飲食柜臺(尤指火車站或火車內的).
2 meal at which guests serve themselves from a number of dishes; food provided for this 自助餐; (自助餐的)食物
Dinner will be a cold buffet, not a sit-down meal. 正餐是涼的自助餐, 不是坐著讓人侍候的那一種.
[attrib 作定語]
a buffet lunch/supper 自助午餐[晚餐].
buffet n blow (esp with the hand) or shock 打(尤指用手); 打擊
(fig 比喻) suffer the buffets of a cruel fate 遭受悲慘命運的打擊. buffet, v [Tn, Tn.p]
~ sb/sth (about) knock or push sb/sth roughly from side to side 把某人[某物]打來打去或推來推去
flowers buffeted by the rain and wind 受風吹雨打的花
(fig 比喻) be buffeted by misfortune 飽受災禍的蹂躪
a boat buffeted (about) by the waves 被大浪沖來沖去的船. buffeting n
The flowers took quite a buffeting in the storm. 花朵在暴風雨中備受摧殘.