導讀1.名詞，自助餐，(火車)飲食柜臺;(車站)快餐部[b??fe?]復數：buffetsabuffetlunch/supper自助午餐/晚餐Dinnerwil....

1.名詞，自助餐，(火車)飲食柜臺;(車站)快餐部[b??fe?]

復數： 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，不是坐著等服務員送來的那種。

We sat in the station buffet sipping tea.

我們坐在車站的自助餐廳里喝茶。

A cold buffet had been laid out in the dining-room.

餐廳里已經擺好了自助冷食。

At lunchtime, theres a choice between the buffet or the set menu

午餐可以吃自助餐，也可以選套餐。

A waiter came and hovered. John caught my look and we both got up and, ignoring the waiter, made our way to the buffet

一個侍者走了過來，候在附近。約翰領會了我的眼神，我們兩個都站了起來，沒有理睬那個侍者，朝自助餐臺走去。

Are you having a sit-down meal or a buffet at the wedding?

你想在婚禮中擺桌宴還是搞自助餐？

Come for cocktail and buffet next Sunday.

下星期天請來喝雞尾酒吃自助餐。

cocktail [?k?kte?l] n.雞尾酒;涼菜;冷盤;(常指摻合不太相容的)混合物

Ill eat too much if I have the buffet.

如果吃自助餐，我怕我會吃多了。

If you live alone, you might not want to cook a hot meal every day.

如果單身居住，你可能不會想每天都做一頓熱菜熱飯。

I need a place to stay and a hot meal.

我需要一個住的地方和一頓飽餐。

2.動詞，[?b?f?t] 對…打來打去;將…推來搡去

現在分詞： buffeting過去式： buffeted過去分詞： buffeted第三人稱單數： buffets

to be buffeted by the wind

被風吹得左右搖擺

The nation had been buffeted by a wave of strikes.

罷工浪潮使這個國家受到了重創。

Their plane had been severely buffeted by storms.

他們的飛機遭受到風暴的重創。

The whole of Africa had been buffeted by social and political upheavals.

整個非洲都經受了社會和政治動蕩之苦。

upheaval [?p?hi?vl] n.劇變;激變;動亂;動蕩

Storms swept the country, closing roads, buffeting ferries and killing as many as 30 people.

暴風雨席卷全國，使道路無法通行，渡船受襲，多達30人遇難。