buffet
buffet 英 [ˈbʊfeɪ] 美 [bəˈfeɪ]
n. 自助餐，快餐部 v. 推来推去
进行时:buffeting 过去式:buffeted 过去分词:buffetted 第三人称单数:buffets 名词复数:buffets
- When you see the word buffet, it's hard not to think "all-you-can-eat." Although the noun can refer to food set out for self-service, buffet also means "a blow, especially with the hand," and as a verb "to strike sharply."
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- n. 自助餐，快餐部
- v. 推来推去
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1. to be buffeted by the wind
被风吹得左右摇摆
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2. The nation had been buffeted by a wave of strikes.
罢工浪潮使这个国家受到了重创。
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3. a buffet lunch, a buffet supper
自助午餐╱晚餐
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4. Dinner will be a cold buffet, not a sit-down meal.
主餐是自助冷食，不是坐着等服务员送来的那种。
- buffet (n.1) 1718, "cupboard, sideboard, etc., to hold china plates, etc.," from French bufet "bench, stool, sideboard" (12c.), which is of uncertain origin. Sense in English extended to "refreshment bar, place set aside for refreshments in public places" (1792), then, via buffet-table, buffet-car (1887), buffet-lunch, etc., by 1951 to "meal served from a buffet." The French word was borrowed in Middle English in the sense "low stool" (early 15c.) but became obsolete.
- buffet (n.2) c. 1200, "a blow struck with a fist or blunt weapon," from Old French bufet "a slap, a punch," diminutive of bufe "a blow, slap, punch; puff of wind," figuratively "cunning trick," probably echoic of the sound of something soft being hit.
- buffet (v.) c. 1200, "to strike with the fist or hand; cuff, box, slap;" from Old French bufeter "to strike, slap, punch," from bufet "a slap, a punch" (see buffet (n.2)). Related: Buffeted; buffeting.
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