单词	buffeting
释义	buffetbuf‧fet2 /ˈbʌfɪt/ verb [transitive] Word Origin WORD ORIGINbuffet2 Origin: 1200-1300 buffet ‘blow, hit’ (13-21 centuries), from Old French, from buffe ‘blow’ Verb Table VERB TABLE buffet Simple Form Present they buffet it buffets Past it, they buffeted Present perfect they have buffeted it has buffeted Past perfect it, they had buffeted Future it, they will buffet Future perfect it, they will have buffeted Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Local businesses have been buffeted by the troubled economy. The coastline was buffeted by strong winds. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Before I could examine them, I was buffeted by a gust of wind and rain. But it has been buffeted by the recession on two counts: it is in the south-east and in the services sector. Heat and smoke buffeted him with welcoming arms as he entered the bar. Not every small business has been buffeted by General Dynamics' downsizing. Since last fall, the stock market has been buffeted by contradictory influences. Then the prime minister's Tristar jet was buffeted by freak 200-mile-an-hour winds before being diverted from Ottawa to Montreal due to fog. Tossed and buffeted for six hours, and caught in an eddy in the vortex, she died of suffocation. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a buffet breakfast (=one in a hotel, where you serve yourself)· A buffet breakfast is served in the hotel's elegant dining room. Phrases PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► sleeping/dining/buffet car Even on long journeys early trains had no corridors, lavatories, dining cars or heating. Every seat in the dining car filled up and still people were coming. He kept getting up and going to the window to look down on his sleeping car. I was watching the scene from the kitchen end of the dining car, standing just behind Emil, Cathy and Oliver. In the warm yellow light of the dining car windows I caught a glimpse of a woman raising a wine glass. Luxury for first class travellers: a sleeping car attendant delivers hot water bottles on the London-to-Inverness Express, January 1935. The buffet car was up ahead; there was a young woman buying a drink and some sandwiches. The dining car had oak woodwork, potted palms and sumptuous meals. 1if something, especially wind, rain, or the sea, buffets something, it hits it with a lot of force:  London was buffeted by storms last night. High winds buffeted the region.2literary to treat someone unkindly:  I was weary of being buffeted by life.GRAMMAR Buffet is often passive in meaning 1 and usually passive in meaning 2.—buffeting noun [countable, uncountable]buffet something about phrasal verb to move something in one direction and then another, again and again, with force:  The body was buffeted about in the waves.
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