1
- a 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。
2
- a room or counter in a station, hotel, or other public building selling light meals or snacks快餐部; 点心柜。
2.1
- （亦作buffet car）Brit. a railway carriage in which light meals or snacks can be purchased〈英〉（火车上的）餐车。
3
- （亦读/ˈbʌfɪt/ ）old-fashioned piece of dining-room furniture with cupboards and open shelves for keeping crockery in餐具架, 碗橱。
词源
early 18th cent.(in sense 3)： from French， from Old French bufet 'stool'， of unknown origin.
(buffeted, buffeting)
1- with obj.(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 obj. the wind was buffeting at their bodies.大风猛烈地吹打着他们的身体。
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。
1.2
- （常作be buffeted）figurative (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。
词源
Middle English: from Old French buffeter (verb)， buffet (noun)， diminutive of bufe 'a blow'.