1.名词，自助餐，(火车)饮食柜台;(车站)快餐部[bəˈfeɪ]
复数： buffets
a buffet lunch/supper
自助午餐 / 晚餐
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。
We sat in the station buffet sipping tea.
我们坐在车站的自助餐厅里喝茶。
A cold buffet had been laid out in the dining-room.
餐厅里已经摆好了自助冷食。
At lunchtime, there's a choice between the buffet or the set menu
午餐可以吃自助餐，也可以选套餐。
A waiter came and hovered. John caught my look and we both got up and, ignoring the waiter, made our way to the buffet
一个侍者走了过来，候在附近。约翰领会了我的眼神，我们两个都站了起来，没有理睬那个侍者，朝自助餐台走去。
Are you having a sit-down meal or a buffet at the wedding?
你想在婚礼中摆桌宴还是搞自助餐？
Come for cocktail and buffet next Sunday.
下星期天请来喝鸡尾酒吃自助餐。
cocktail [ˈkɒkteɪl] n.鸡尾酒;凉菜;冷盘;(常指掺合不太相容的)混合物
I'll eat too much if I have the buffet.
如果吃自助餐，我怕我会吃多了。
If you live alone, you might not want to cook a hot meal every day.
如果单身居住，你可能不会想每天都做一顿热菜热饭。
I need a place to stay and a hot meal.
我需要一个住的地方和一顿饱餐。
2.动词，[ˈbʌfɪt] 对…打来打去;将…推来搡去
现在分词： buffeting过去式： buffeted过去分词： buffeted第三人称单数： buffets
to be buffeted by the wind
被风吹得左右摇摆
The nation had been buffeted by a wave of strikes.
罢工浪潮使这个国家受到了重创。
Their plane had been severely buffeted by storms.
他们的飞机遭受到风暴的重创。
The whole of Africa had been buffeted by social and political upheavals.
整个非洲都经受了社会和政治动荡之苦。
upheaval [ʌpˈhiːvl] n.剧变;激变;动乱;动荡
Storms swept the country, closing roads, buffeting ferries and killing as many as 30 people.
暴风雨席卷全国，使道路无法通行，渡船受袭，多达30人遇难。