buffeted

Pronounced /'bʌfeɪ, am bʊ'feɪ/ for meanings 1 to 3, and /'bʌfɪt/ for meanings 4 and 5. 义项1至3读作 /'bʌfeɪ, 美 bʊ'feɪ/，义项4和5读作 /'bʌfɪt/。


1. N-COUNT 自助餐
   A buffet is a meal of cold food that is displayed on a long table at a party or public occasion. Guests usually serve themselves from the table.
   1. ...a buffet lunch...
      自助午餐
   2. A cold buffet had been laid out in the dining-room.
      餐厅里已经摆好了自助冷食。
2. N-COUNT （通常指旅馆或车站的）餐饮部，小餐馆
   A buffet is a café, usually in a hotel or station.
   1. We sat in the station buffet sipping tea.
      我们坐在车站的自助餐厅里喝茶。
3. （火车上的）餐车
   On a train, the buffet or the buffet car is the carriage or car where meals and snacks are sold.

in AM, use 美国英语用 dining car


4. VERB （大风或海浪）反复拍打，猛击
   If something is buffeted by strong winds or by stormy seas, it is repeatedly struck or blown around by them.
   1. Their plane had been severely buffeted by storms...
      他们的飞机遭受到风暴的重创。
   2. 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。
5. VERB （严峻局势）冲击，打击
   If an economy or government is buffeted by difficult or unpleasant situations, it experiences many of them.
   1. 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。

1. Their plane had been severely buffeted by storms
   他们的飞机遭受到风暴的重创。
2. 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。
3. We were buffeted about during the rough boat trip.
   船在大浪中航行，我们被颠得左右摇晃。
4. Her mind was buffeted by different thoughts.
   她思绪翻涌。
5. We were buffeted by the wind and the rain.
   我们遭到风雨的袭击。
6. The hurricane's high winds buffeted a huge area hundreds-of-kilometers inland.
   这次飓风影响了内陆数百公里的地区。
7. Their boat was tossed and buffeted by the turbulent waters.
   它们的小船被汹涌的海水颠簸着、击打着。
8. Business sentiment in China is suffering, buffeted by deflationary pressures and rising labour and regulation costs.
   通缩压力以及劳动力和监管成本的上升，正对中国企业信心造成影响。
9. But by winter, the islands are buffeted by strong winds that drive away visitors.
   但到了冬天，这些岛屿上的强风会把游客赶走。
10. There are some enlightening similarities between the shocks that manufacturers are now suffering and those that buffeted the banking system in the2008 financial crisis.
    制造厂家如今面临的打击和2008年金融危机时来自银行系统的打击，有一些具有启发作用的相似之处。
11. Then I waited, buffeted by the wind, trying to stay warm.
    接下来就是等，风吹着，我拼命想暖和一点。
12. We buffeted with the storm all the way.
    我们一路上与暴风雨搏斗着。
13. I could see from the window view that I would be buffeted and blown by the wind.
    我可以看到从窗口认为我会冲击和吹由风。
14. Buffeted by pressures from all sides, the military council opted for an electoral system so complex that it seems designed to generate confusion and controversy rather than conclusive results.
    军事委员会承受着来自各方的压力，因为选择了一个及其复杂的的选举制度，它似乎旨在产生混乱和争议，而不是为了得到一个结论性的成果。
15. But equally, they also suggest China is being buffeted by events.
    但同样，它们似乎也表明中国正受到各种事件的冲击。
16. But the past six months have been unusually difficult for exporters buffeted by sagging demand in Western markets and wage and raw material rises at home.
    但过去六个月对于饱受西方市场需求疲软以及国内工资和原材料价格上涨打击的出口商来说异常艰难。
17. The yen is now being buffeted by opposing forces.
    现在，日元正在被相反的力量蹂躏。
18. Or whether we sit by and allow relations between states to be buffeted by economic and strategic shifts and shocks.
    还是袖手旁观，任国与国之间的关系经受经济和战略变化与震动的冲击。
19. Even before the global financial crisis, China's airline industry had been buffeted by natural disasters, fluctuating jet-fuel prices and disruption from the Beijing Olympics earlier this year.
    早在全球金融危机爆发之前，中国的民航业就已经因今年早些时候的自然灾害、航油价格波动和北京奥运会的影响而受到了冲击。
20. The girl buffeted with fate.
    这姑娘与命运相斗。
21. She has been buffeted by misfortunes.
    她不断遭到厄运的打击。
22. The results suggested that after having escaped being hit as badly as the US and UK by financial market turmoil over the past year, the eurozone is being buffeted by the surging price of oil and its effect on global growth prospects.
    上述结果表明，虽然在过去一年的金融市场动荡中，欧元区遭受的打击没有美国和英国那么严重，但油价飙升及其对全球增长前景的影响正在对欧元区构成冲击。
23. The nation had been buffeted by a wave of strikes.
    罢工浪潮使这个国家受到了重创。
24. She has been buffeted by misfortunes. Good courage breaks bad luck.
    她不断遭到厄运的打击。勇气可以改变厄运。
25. He is severely buffeted by events and forces beyond his control.
    他无法控制的事件和势力使他受到严重冲击。
26. Avoid the London underground in the rush hour-you'll be buffeted about and have your toes trampled on.
    在伦敦地铁拥挤的时刻别去乘车你会被挤来撞去，脚趾头也会被踩伤的。
27. The country's airline industry has been buffeted by falling passenger numbers and huge hedging losses caused by plummeting oil prices, with China Eastern the worst performer of the major carriers.
    近来，中国航空业受到乘客人数不断下降和油价暴跌所造成的巨额对冲亏损的打击，其中中国东航在大型航空公司中表现最差。
28. Our planet was buffeted with blasts of radiation& with devastating effects.
    我们的星球受到了强烈的毁灭性辐射震荡。
29. Those flowers were buffeted by rain and wind.
    那些花为风雨所摧残。
30. Buffeted by the weak shipping market, the group is struggling to refinance its debts.
    由于受疲软的船运市场打击，该集团正竭尽全力为它的债务进行再融资。

adj

1. pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities

   Synonym:    storm-tossedtempest-tossedtempest-tosttempest-swept