buffet
n
1 counter where food and drink may be bought and consumed, esp in a railway station or on a train 饮食柜台(尤指火车站或火车内的).
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. 正餐是凉的自助餐, 不是坐著让人侍候的那一种.
[attrib 作定语]
a buffet lunch/supper 自助午餐[晚餐].
buffet n blow (esp with the hand) or shock 打(尤指用手); 打击
(fig 比喻) suffer the buffets of a cruel fate 遭受悲惨命运的打击. buffet, v [Tn, Tn.p]
~ sb/sth (about) knock or push sb/sth roughly from side to side 把某人[某物]打来打去或推来推去
flowers buffeted by the rain and wind 受风吹雨打的花
(fig 比喻) be buffeted by misfortune 饱受灾祸的蹂躏
a boat buffeted (about) by the waves 被大浪冲来冲去的船. buffeting n
The flowers took quite a buffeting in the storm. 花朵在暴风雨中备受摧残.
and without giving any consideration to the effects produced on the individuals and on their descendants by the artificial mode of existence imposed by the factory.