词典释义：
a meal consisting of several dishes from which guests serve themselves
自助餐
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[as modifier]
a cold buffet lunch .一次冷自助午餐。
a room or counter in a station, hotel, or other public building selling light meals or snacks
快餐部；点心柜。
(亦作
〈英〉 （火车上的）餐车。
(亦读/'b^fɪt/ )old-fashioned piece of dining-room furniture with cupboards and open shelves for keeping crockery in
餐具架，碗橱。
(especially of wind or waves) strike repeatedly and violently; batter
（尤指风，浪）连续猛击，反复敲打
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rough seas buffeted the coast 海上的巨浪猛烈地拍打着海岸
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[no obj.]
the wind was buffeting at their bodies .大风猛烈地吹打着他们的身体。
knock (someone) over or off course
击倒，击偏
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he was buffeted from side to side. 他被打得东倒西歪。
(常作
〈喻〉 （霉运，困难）长期打击，折磨
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they were buffeted by a major recession .他们遇到了一场大萧条。
〈旧〉 （尤指用手或拳头）打击。
〈喻〉 震惊；不幸
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the daily buffets of urban civilization .都市文明每天给人们带来的震惊。
[mass noun]
【航空】 同<Bold>BUFFETING</Bold>.
〈苏格兰，北英格兰〉 矮凳，踏脚凳。
"early 18th cent．（in sense 3）： from French, from Old French
