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nounPlural buffets ˈbʊfeɪˈbʌfeɪbəˈfeɪ 1A meal consisting of several dishes from which guests serve themselves. 自助餐 as modifier a cold buffet lunch 一次冷自助午餐。 Example sentencesExamples - Local residents enjoyed a champagne reception on arrival, a lavish buffet of hot and cold dishes all served with live piano music.
- That is always assuming that they can fit it all in after having been served up a full buffet breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and home-made cakes and canapés.
- The Prime Minister and his wife were also taken on conducted tour of the hall, and a buffet lunch was served for the guests.
- Guests were treated to a buffet style lunch to sample some of the cuisine with efficient and friendly service to match.
- The best meal of the day was, without doubt, breakfast, which is served as a buffet, but is essentially a feast of 20 or so heaving tables offering more dishes than anyone could sample in a week.
- The evening buffet features the particular dishes from the selected province, plus fare from other areas.
- After the show, guests enjoyed the buffet of Egyptian food which always tastes as good as it looks.
- This buffet meal of cold and hot hors d' oeuvres often includes various forms of herring, meats, cheeses, and vegetables.
- Following the concert, guests moved into the dining room for a bountiful buffet of superb Norwegian specialties.
- If you bring your children, let them participate in an egg hunt in the hotel garden while you enjoy your buffet.
- We didn't have the typical wedding with bridesmaids, 200 guests and a mile-long buffet with an ice sculpture.
- Adding to the authenticity of the occasion will be a buffet dinner to serve as the wedding reception.
- Guests were treated to a magnificent buffet lunch, most lavishly set up in a huge white air-conditioned tent.
- Tickets cost 20 Euro and the buffet will be served at 9.30 sharp.
- A buffet supper will be served and full bar facilities will be available.
- It was artistic and effective, and the more than 900 guests enjoyed the bountiful buffets of superb food set up everywhere.
- At the end of your round a buffet lunch will be served in the club's temporary clubhouse.
- The restaurant had many Afghan, Indian and local dishes in their buffet range.
- This country style sideboard gives you just the space you need space to store extra dishes, plates and platters, plus room to layout a sumptuous buffet.
- All students, parents and guests enjoyed a buffet in the School Library to finish off the evening's celebrations.
Synonyms cold table, cold meal, self-service, smorgasbord 2A room or counter in a station, hotel, or other public building selling light meals or snacks. 快餐部；点心柜 Example sentencesExamples - It tasted as if it had sat on a railway-station buffet for weeks.
- The buffet on the station was icy cold, with a failed heating system.
- There's no dining car, which adds a bit of adventure - you have to judge your stops and make dashes for the station buffet.
- He's an average man - not too bright, not over-ambitious - but is delighted to have a beautiful wife, May, who runs the station buffet.
- The railway has six superbly restored gas-lit stations, a fleet of steam locomotives and historic carriages, a Museum of Rail Travel at Ingrow, buffets at Keighley and Oxenhope - and even a CAMRA real ale bar on many trains.
Synonyms cafe, cafeteria, snack bar, canteen, salad bar, refreshment stall/counter, restaurant - 2.1British A railway carriage selling light meals or snacks.
Example sentencesExamples - Also, the award-winning buffet car on the train will be serving hot and cold drinks, sandwiches and real ales.
- The appellant had worked in a buffet car on the railways, as a waitress in a restaurant on South Molle Island, in a nightclub for two periods, and at a tavern as a function manager at the Gold Coast.
- All ten trains will be fitted with a new buffet car and kitchen, the coaches will be re-carpeted and all seats refurbished and finished in scratch-resistant coatings.
- After queueing for 27 minutes in a line of just 10 people it soon became obvious the concept of speed was pretty alien to the woman in the buffet car, too.
- The others are a Pulman buffet car which dates from the 1930s and an art deco Railcar from 1935 one of 28 built.
- The trains on Saturday included a third-class carriage and a 1937 buffet car, which was the first to be restored to its original condition.
- The TGV also passes that all-important coffee test - it glides along the tracks so smoothly that there's no danger of you spilling a single drop as you wander back from the buffet car cradling your latest steaming liquid caffeine fix.
- Despite a broken collarbone and foot, she freed herself from debris and cared for passengers, first in the buffet car and then outside the train.
- The publisher had sent us first class tickets, but there was no first class compartment nor indeed a buffet because of some mysterious problem.
- The Duke of York emerges from a restored buffet car at Leeming Bar station on the Wensleydale Railway to be met by schoolchildren.
- The buffet car will be out this weekend when 100 special guests will arrive to celebrate the opening of the Bahamas Museum, at Ingrow - a museum featuring Bahamas-type railstock.
- All the toilets but two were either blocked, or had broken locks on the doors, and the buffet car was smoky and unpleasant.
- Such a huge number of passengers and not a single buffet car or a usable bathroom on the whole train.
- Now the steam train's award-winning buffet car, which boasts a host of real ales including York Brewery's masterful Stonewall, is to run every day during the summer.
- There will be a buffet car and a licensed bar on board.
- The famous award-winning real ale buffet car is also available on the train.
- The spokesman said the redesign would give passengers two inches of extra leg room and more comfortable seats while buffets and new toilet compartments would be among other improvements.
- Ten days later the fires had burned out and I shared a railway buffet car with dozens of Cree and Swampy Cree travelling north from Thomson to Hudson Bay.
- There will be a buffet car, a chilled wine trolley and a bar serving real ale from the Riverhead Brewery at Marsden, near Huddersfield.
- Red Kangaroo Service also includes a diner, buffet car and lounge.
3North American dated A cabinet with shelves and drawers for keeping dinnerware and table linens; a sideboard. Example sentencesExamples - She took her clean house-dress from a pile of three that she had carefully hidden in the buffet drawer under the kitchen towels.
- This pair of buffets will be returned to their original positions on the piers of the recently redecorated Saloon.
- Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk One of a pair of mid nineteenth-century antiquarian buffets, incorporating seventeenth-century Flemish carvings.
- Among them a lamp cap, frames, wax holders, tissue boxes, trays, plates, tables, chairs, buffets, and many others.
- Ben moved to the buffet and withdrew several linen napkins.
- For rustic country decor in the kitchen, use open shelves, hutches, buffets, plate racks and cupboards for storage.
Synonyms sideboard, cabinet, china cupboard, counter
OriginEarly 18th century (denoting a sideboard): from French, from Old French bufet 'stool', of unknown origin. verbbuffets, buffeted, buffeting ˈbʌfɪtˈbəfət [with object]1(especially of wind or waves) strike repeatedly and violently; batter. （尤指风，浪）连续猛击，反复敲打 rough seas buffeted the coast 海上的巨浪猛烈地拍打着海岸。 no object the wind was buffeting at their bodies 大风猛烈地吹打着他们的身体。 Example sentencesExamples - We were expecting to step outside at the end of the evening and be buffeted by high winds and soaked by torrential rain.
- Storm whips up from the Antarctic and joggers pound along a waterfront buffeted by wind.
- If the pound's mid-Atlantic pattern continues - being buffeted by waves from Europe and North America but not moving much - there will be little to worry about.
- Strong gusts of wind buffeted the Messerschmitt and the captain missed his target.
- Amazingly you don't get buffeted by the wind even when you drive fast.
- The world has been buffeted by waves of terror that have traumatised Eastern as well as Western societies.
- In winter the island is buffeted by arctic winds, and in early summer the north coast is battered by icebergs floating down from Greenland.
- The two figures stumbled across the dunes, buffeted by the wind and sand.
- He wants to learn how the peregrine does it, how a bird can fly hundreds of miles a day, feeding sporadically and buffeted by uncooperative winds.
- It's beautiful in summer, he says, but not quite so today, the back of the house buffeted by howling winds and Biblical rains coming in across the river.
- We rope the house to trees along the shore to prevent it from drifting away when we are buffeted by strong winds during the area's frequent tempests.
- It was so dark they could not see each other as their tree was buffeted by strong winds caused by Cyclone Debbie.
- But it would take a powerful insect, or a very brave bird, to pollinate the plants that cling to exposed slopes, consistently buffeted by thirty-mile-an-hour winds.
- The international order is like a mighty river and our region is but a small boat buffeted by angry waves.
- Fifty years ago on October 26 black clouds swirled over the mouth of the Firth of Tay as the east coast of Scotland was buffeted by fierce winds.
- I walked from the valley below to both of the fog-free summits, buffeted by ocean winds.
- As you might expect, the path is exposed to the elements; sometimes it is blessed by sun and clear skies while the rest of the peninsula is in rain, and at other times it is buffeted by strong winds and rain coming in from the sea.
- The ferry was traveling from Puerto Galera to Batangas City on Luzon Island when it was buffeted by large waves and strong winds around 7 a.m.
- The frail craft, though buffeted by violent winds and sudden air pockets, stayed aloft.
- Veterans from across the United States returned to find Bastogne covered in snow and buffeted by biting winds - just as it was during that bitterly cold December of 1944.
Synonyms batter, pound, beat/knock/dash against, push against, lash, strike, hit, bang - 1.1 Knock (someone) off course.
击倒，击偏 he was buffeted from side to side 他被打得东倒西歪。 Example sentencesExamples - The sidewalk is narrow and the pedestrian is buffeted on one side by traffic, on the other by the proximity of the plunge and the meagre hip-height railing.
- Debris pelted down from the rolled edges of the fireball like meteors, buffeting those who had been lucky enough to avoid the initial explosion, slamming them to the ground.
- He took plenty of hard knocks and got up to give plenty of hard knocks, took a good pack mark, buffeted Richardson out of position in marking duels, punched the ball clear and is a stylish left foot kick.
- The Seminole shook as she was buffeted by the two explosions and alarms announced more hull breaches and damage.
- White feathered wings buffeted him aside, the silver-white dragon looking down on him with a slightly distant expression.
- But she was again buffeted away, as helpless as a dandelion seed.
- Tears were ripped from her eyes as she was buffeted by the blast.
- In the winter of 1972 while staying in the Circuit House at Saharsa I happened to see the then Chief Minister being buffeted and abused by an angry crowd of legislators and politicians.
- When the ball did reach him, he was constantly buffeted by the Faroes' burly rearguard and struggled to make it stick.
- Jumped on the 8:36 to Cannon Street, got buffeted and barged by all the commuters and knocked off balance by the big backpack on me.
- 1.2 (of difficulties) afflict (someone) over a long period.
they were buffeted by a major recession 他们遇到了一场大萧条。 Example sentencesExamples - An immigrant buffeted by war and with little formal education, he learnt his trade as an intern before marching out on his own as a photojournalist.
- Between the two, we are buffeted by profit, partisanship and passions.
- But didn't Greene really mean this thriller/romance to be yet another of his expositions on the emotional frailty of men buffeted by love and betrayal?
- The garbage situation reflects the never-ending mess that buffets the country's two-and-a-half year administration.
- Their personal relationship is buffeted by the external and public events of the play - identity, community, multiculturalism and the hold of a community over its members.
- Without firm, deep foundations, faith is likely to topple over whenever it is challenged by the difficulties that life buffets us with.
- Or they were tormented souls, buffeted by external dilemmas and prior vulnerabilities.
- Wherever we might go, many of the forces buffeting people's lives are similar.
- There's something about her on-screen bearing that invites tragedy, her characters are relentlessly buffeted by ill-fortune.
- Brazil has also been buffeted by the huge social and economic crisis in neighbouring Argentina - a crisis that led to last December's uprising there.
- Over the last few weeks, Gilbert has been buffeted from all sides by furious investors, politicians, analysts, the media, other fund managers and industry regulators.
- In September 1897, buffeted by personal and professional difficulties, as well as conflicts with leading German feminists, she entered a mental hospital.
- Perhaps bond yields are signaling an economic slowdown, but it appears more like they are being buffeted by financial instability.
- Noise pollution is insidious says actor Randy Hughson, who brings his portrayal of Doyle, a man buffeted by incessant noise, to the Magnetic North Festival.
- The understudies start by reading from books, but by the magic of theatre these are soon dropped, and the play takes over, its passage buffeted by the mayhem going on all around it.
Synonyms afflict, trouble, harm, distress, burden, bother, beset, harass, worry, oppress, strain, stress, tax, torment, blight, bedevil, harrow, cause trouble to, cause suffering to
nounPlural buffets ˈbʌfɪtˈbəfət 1dated A blow or punch. Example sentencesExamples - Edgar struck him a buffet on the face which sent him reeling backwards.
- Soothly, as he followed after me, I had a mind to turn about and deal him a buffet on the face, to see if I could but draw one angry word from him.
- But this blow was but a buffet with the hand, compared with the thunderbolt that fate was preparing to launch against my bosom.
- 1.1 A shock or misfortune.
〈喻〉震惊；不幸 the daily buffets of urban civilization 都市文明每天给人们带来的震惊。 Example sentencesExamples - What is even more violent is that in order to escape further pain and buffets, Cheryl found herself clinging for salvation in this instant to the very same social yardstick used to measure her a non-person.
- To experience the enervating, exasperating and humbling feeling that comes from trying to plumb the depths of this most amazing subject we call mathematics, is to transcend the limits of human capability and fortify oneself against the buffets of life.
- Why count the possible buffets and ignore the rewards of fortune?
Synonyms shock, jolt, jar, upset, setback, crisis, catastrophe, blow misfortune, trouble, problem, difficulty, hardship, adversity, distress, disaster, misadventure affliction, sorrow, misery, tribulation, woe, pain, tragedy, calamity, vicissitude trial, cross, burden
2Aeronautics
fifteen degrees of flap induce marked buffet another term for buffeting Example sentencesExamples - This unit had to be carefully installed to ensure a tight fit, but it also virtually eliminated the tail buffet.
- Stalls are typical and predictable with power on or off and sufficient warning buffet to prevent surprises.
- All of a sudden, I sensed the uneasy feeling of the aircraft going into stall buffet.
- Even at a high rate of plummet there is very good control at 150 kph accompanied by a lot of wind around the windscreen and a lot of air-frame buffet.
- As an old fighter-pilot, I don't like buffet because sometimes it signals a pre-stall condition.
OriginMiddle English: from Old French buffeter (verb), buffet (noun), diminutive of bufe 'a blow'. nounPlural buffets ˈbʌfɪtˈbəfət Northern English, Scottish A low stool or hassock. 〈苏格兰，北英格兰〉矮凳，踏脚凳 Example sentencesExamples - There was a buffet beneath one window, and china closets flanked the fireplace where a fire crackled behind the fender.
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French bufet, of unknown origin. nounbəˈfeɪbəˈfā 1A meal consisting of several dishes from which guests serve themselves. 自助餐 as modifier a cold buffet lunch 一次冷自助午餐。 Example sentencesExamples - This buffet meal of cold and hot hors d' oeuvres often includes various forms of herring, meats, cheeses, and vegetables.
- Adding to the authenticity of the occasion will be a buffet dinner to serve as the wedding reception.
- We didn't have the typical wedding with bridesmaids, 200 guests and a mile-long buffet with an ice sculpture.
- After the show, guests enjoyed the buffet of Egyptian food which always tastes as good as it looks.
- Local residents enjoyed a champagne reception on arrival, a lavish buffet of hot and cold dishes all served with live piano music.
- Guests were treated to a magnificent buffet lunch, most lavishly set up in a huge white air-conditioned tent.
- Following the concert, guests moved into the dining room for a bountiful buffet of superb Norwegian specialties.
- At the end of your round a buffet lunch will be served in the club's temporary clubhouse.
- This country style sideboard gives you just the space you need space to store extra dishes, plates and platters, plus room to layout a sumptuous buffet.
- That is always assuming that they can fit it all in after having been served up a full buffet breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and home-made cakes and canapés.
- The Prime Minister and his wife were also taken on conducted tour of the hall, and a buffet lunch was served for the guests.
- The evening buffet features the particular dishes from the selected province, plus fare from other areas.
- Guests were treated to a buffet style lunch to sample some of the cuisine with efficient and friendly service to match.
- A buffet supper will be served and full bar facilities will be available.
- The best meal of the day was, without doubt, breakfast, which is served as a buffet, but is essentially a feast of 20 or so heaving tables offering more dishes than anyone could sample in a week.
- The restaurant had many Afghan, Indian and local dishes in their buffet range.
- Tickets cost 20 Euro and the buffet will be served at 9.30 sharp.
- All students, parents and guests enjoyed a buffet in the School Library to finish off the evening's celebrations.
- If you bring your children, let them participate in an egg hunt in the hotel garden while you enjoy your buffet.
- It was artistic and effective, and the more than 900 guests enjoyed the bountiful buffets of superb food set up everywhere.
Synonyms cold table, cold meal, self-service, smorgasbord 2A room or counter in a station, hotel, or other public building selling light meals or snacks. 快餐部；点心柜 Example sentencesExamples - The railway has six superbly restored gas-lit stations, a fleet of steam locomotives and historic carriages, a Museum of Rail Travel at Ingrow, buffets at Keighley and Oxenhope - and even a CAMRA real ale bar on many trains.
- The buffet on the station was icy cold, with a failed heating system.
- There's no dining car, which adds a bit of adventure - you have to judge your stops and make dashes for the station buffet.
- He's an average man - not too bright, not over-ambitious - but is delighted to have a beautiful wife, May, who runs the station buffet.
- It tasted as if it had sat on a railway-station buffet for weeks.
Synonyms cafe, cafeteria, snack bar, canteen, salad bar, refreshment counter, refreshment stall, restaurant 3North American dated A cabinet with shelves and drawers for keeping dinnerware and table linens; a sideboard. Example sentencesExamples - Among them a lamp cap, frames, wax holders, tissue boxes, trays, plates, tables, chairs, buffets, and many others.
- She took her clean house-dress from a pile of three that she had carefully hidden in the buffet drawer under the kitchen towels.
- Ben moved to the buffet and withdrew several linen napkins.
- This pair of buffets will be returned to their original positions on the piers of the recently redecorated Saloon.
- Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk One of a pair of mid nineteenth-century antiquarian buffets, incorporating seventeenth-century Flemish carvings.
- For rustic country decor in the kitchen, use open shelves, hutches, buffets, plate racks and cupboards for storage.
Synonyms sideboard, cabinet, china cupboard, counter
OriginEarly 18th century (denoting a sideboard): from French, from Old French bufet ‘stool’, of unknown origin. verbˈbəfətˈbəfət [with object]1(especially of wind or waves) strike repeatedly and violently; batter. （尤指风，浪）连续猛击，反复敲打 the rough seas buffeted the coast 海上的巨浪猛烈地拍打着海岸。 no object the wind was buffeting at their bodies 大风猛烈地吹打着他们的身体。 Example sentencesExamples - As you might expect, the path is exposed to the elements; sometimes it is blessed by sun and clear skies while the rest of the peninsula is in rain, and at other times it is buffeted by strong winds and rain coming in from the sea.
- Fifty years ago on October 26 black clouds swirled over the mouth of the Firth of Tay as the east coast of Scotland was buffeted by fierce winds.
- But it would take a powerful insect, or a very brave bird, to pollinate the plants that cling to exposed slopes, consistently buffeted by thirty-mile-an-hour winds.
- I walked from the valley below to both of the fog-free summits, buffeted by ocean winds.
- If the pound's mid-Atlantic pattern continues - being buffeted by waves from Europe and North America but not moving much - there will be little to worry about.
- The international order is like a mighty river and our region is but a small boat buffeted by angry waves.
- We rope the house to trees along the shore to prevent it from drifting away when we are buffeted by strong winds during the area's frequent tempests.
- Strong gusts of wind buffeted the Messerschmitt and the captain missed his target.
- He wants to learn how the peregrine does it, how a bird can fly hundreds of miles a day, feeding sporadically and buffeted by uncooperative winds.
- The frail craft, though buffeted by violent winds and sudden air pockets, stayed aloft.
- Storm whips up from the Antarctic and joggers pound along a waterfront buffeted by wind.
- The ferry was traveling from Puerto Galera to Batangas City on Luzon Island when it was buffeted by large waves and strong winds around 7 a.m.
- Amazingly you don't get buffeted by the wind even when you drive fast.
- The two figures stumbled across the dunes, buffeted by the wind and sand.
- We were expecting to step outside at the end of the evening and be buffeted by high winds and soaked by torrential rain.
- Veterans from across the United States returned to find Bastogne covered in snow and buffeted by biting winds - just as it was during that bitterly cold December of 1944.
- It was so dark they could not see each other as their tree was buffeted by strong winds caused by Cyclone Debbie.
- The world has been buffeted by waves of terror that have traumatised Eastern as well as Western societies.
- In winter the island is buffeted by arctic winds, and in early summer the north coast is battered by icebergs floating down from Greenland.
- It's beautiful in summer, he says, but not quite so today, the back of the house buffeted by howling winds and Biblical rains coming in across the river.
Synonyms batter, pound, beat against, dash against, knock against, push against, lash, strike, hit, bang - 1.1 Knock (someone) over or off course.
击倒，击偏 he was buffeted from side to side 他被打得东倒西歪。 Example sentencesExamples - Debris pelted down from the rolled edges of the fireball like meteors, buffeting those who had been lucky enough to avoid the initial explosion, slamming them to the ground.
- Tears were ripped from her eyes as she was buffeted by the blast.
- The Seminole shook as she was buffeted by the two explosions and alarms announced more hull breaches and damage.
- The sidewalk is narrow and the pedestrian is buffeted on one side by traffic, on the other by the proximity of the plunge and the meagre hip-height railing.
- White feathered wings buffeted him aside, the silver-white dragon looking down on him with a slightly distant expression.
- When the ball did reach him, he was constantly buffeted by the Faroes' burly rearguard and struggled to make it stick.
- In the winter of 1972 while staying in the Circuit House at Saharsa I happened to see the then Chief Minister being buffeted and abused by an angry crowd of legislators and politicians.
- He took plenty of hard knocks and got up to give plenty of hard knocks, took a good pack mark, buffeted Richardson out of position in marking duels, punched the ball clear and is a stylish left foot kick.
- Jumped on the 8:36 to Cannon Street, got buffeted and barged by all the commuters and knocked off balance by the big backpack on me.
- But she was again buffeted away, as helpless as a dandelion seed.
- 1.2 (of misfortunes or difficulties) afflict or harm (someone) repeatedly or over a long period.
〈喻〉（霉运，困难）长期打击，折磨 they were buffeted by a major recession 他们遇到了一场大萧条。 Example sentencesExamples - Or they were tormented souls, buffeted by external dilemmas and prior vulnerabilities.
- Wherever we might go, many of the forces buffeting people's lives are similar.
- Between the two, we are buffeted by profit, partisanship and passions.
- The understudies start by reading from books, but by the magic of theatre these are soon dropped, and the play takes over, its passage buffeted by the mayhem going on all around it.
- Over the last few weeks, Gilbert has been buffeted from all sides by furious investors, politicians, analysts, the media, other fund managers and industry regulators.
- Perhaps bond yields are signaling an economic slowdown, but it appears more like they are being buffeted by financial instability.
- The garbage situation reflects the never-ending mess that buffets the country's two-and-a-half year administration.
- Brazil has also been buffeted by the huge social and economic crisis in neighbouring Argentina - a crisis that led to last December's uprising there.
- Noise pollution is insidious says actor Randy Hughson, who brings his portrayal of Doyle, a man buffeted by incessant noise, to the Magnetic North Festival.
- Without firm, deep foundations, faith is likely to topple over whenever it is challenged by the difficulties that life buffets us with.
- Their personal relationship is buffeted by the external and public events of the play - identity, community, multiculturalism and the hold of a community over its members.
- In September 1897, buffeted by personal and professional difficulties, as well as conflicts with leading German feminists, she entered a mental hospital.
- There's something about her on-screen bearing that invites tragedy, her characters are relentlessly buffeted by ill-fortune.
- But didn't Greene really mean this thriller/romance to be yet another of his expositions on the emotional frailty of men buffeted by love and betrayal?
- An immigrant buffeted by war and with little formal education, he learnt his trade as an intern before marching out on his own as a photojournalist.
Synonyms afflict, trouble, harm, distress, burden, bother, beset, harass, worry, oppress, strain, stress, tax, torment, blight, bedevil, harrow, cause trouble to, cause suffering to
nounˈbəfətˈbəfət 1dated A blow, typically of the hand or fist. 〈旧〉（尤指用手或拳头）打击 Example sentencesExamples - But this blow was but a buffet with the hand, compared with the thunderbolt that fate was preparing to launch against my bosom.
- Edgar struck him a buffet on the face which sent him reeling backwards.
- Soothly, as he followed after me, I had a mind to turn about and deal him a buffet on the face, to see if I could but draw one angry word from him.
- 1.1 A shock or misfortune.
〈喻〉震惊；不幸 the daily buffets of urban civilization 都市文明每天给人们带来的震惊。 Example sentencesExamples - What is even more violent is that in order to escape further pain and buffets, Cheryl found herself clinging for salvation in this instant to the very same social yardstick used to measure her a non-person.
- To experience the enervating, exasperating and humbling feeling that comes from trying to plumb the depths of this most amazing subject we call mathematics, is to transcend the limits of human capability and fortify oneself against the buffets of life.
- Why count the possible buffets and ignore the rewards of fortune?
Synonyms shock, jolt, jar, upset, setback, crisis, catastrophe, blow
2Aeronautics
another term for buffeting Example sentencesExamples - As an old fighter-pilot, I don't like buffet because sometimes it signals a pre-stall condition.
- Stalls are typical and predictable with power on or off and sufficient warning buffet to prevent surprises.
- Even at a high rate of plummet there is very good control at 150 kph accompanied by a lot of wind around the windscreen and a lot of air-frame buffet.
- This unit had to be carefully installed to ensure a tight fit, but it also virtually eliminated the tail buffet.
- All of a sudden, I sensed the uneasy feeling of the aircraft going into stall buffet.
OriginMiddle English: from Old French buffeter (verb), buffet (noun), diminutive of bufe ‘a blow’. nounˈbəfətˈbəfət Scottish, Northern English A low stool or hassock. 〈苏格兰，北英格兰〉矮凳，踏脚凳 Example sentencesExamples - There was a buffet beneath one window, and china closets flanked the fireplace where a fire crackled behind the fender.
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French bufet, of unknown origin. |