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buffet

/buhf-it/US // ˈbʌf ɪt //UK // (ˈbʌfɪt) //

自助餐,自助餐厅,自助餐会,自助服务

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a blow, as with the hand or fist.
    • : a violent shock or concussion.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    buf·fet·ed, buf·fet·ing.

    • : to strike, as with the hand or fist.
    • : to strike against or push repeatedly: The wind buffeted the house.
    • : to contend against; battle.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    buf·fet·ed, buf·fet·ing.

    • : to struggle with blows of hand or fist.
    • : to force one's way by a fight, struggle, etc.

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Examples

  • When we think of buffets, we tend to think of their 1980s and early ’90s heyday, when commercial jingles for Sizzler might have been confused with our national anthem.

  • A great gift for the hostess in your life, this wine rack also serves as a buffet style server, with a table top, storage shelves, space for 20 vertical bottles of wine, and hanging storage for wine glasses.

  • Faced with an all-you-can-eat buffet, that’s exactly what a plant’s green body sets out to do.

  • This often means reducing capacities to earlier limits, or closing down a restaurant’s seated bar or buffet station.

  • The antiquated system of waiting two weeks to be paid, sometimes with a paper check, now seems as outdated as office buffet lunches.

  • There were stomachs, taut and flat, but also undulating bellies, soft and bloated from the breakfast buffet.

  • Nutritionist and trainers escorted players assigned to lose or gain weight to the buffet line and sat with them.

  • La Teresita also has an adjoining cafeteria where you can head for an informal buffet and heaping piles of Cuban delicacies.

  • I remember going to a rehearsal dinner that had lobster tail on the buffet and thinking that was decadent.

  • Such is the buffet of delights served on an Oprah Winfrey press tour.

  • Immediately Messa went up the stairs, and safely reached a large room where two candles were burning on a buffet.

  • It was there also that she ate, keeping her belongings in a rare old buffet, dingy and battered from a hundred years of use.

  • Buffetted, by the opposite party, out of one place, and now waiting till they come to buffet us out of another.

  • A great “feed” will take place in the grand hall; the buffet will serve as usual individual suppers and baskets for two persons.

  • Behind the group a white-faced young woman, of perhaps twenty, stood clutching at a buffet for support.