buffeted
v. 反复敲打( buffet的过去式和过去分词 ); 连续猛击; 打来打去; 推来搡去
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.
...a buffet lunch...
自助午餐
A cold buffet had been laid out in the dining-room.
餐厅里已经摆好了自助冷食。
A buffet is a café, usually in a hotel or station.
We sat in the station buffet sipping tea.
我们坐在车站的自助餐厅里喝茶。
On a train, the buffet or the buffet car is the carriage or car where meals and snacks are sold.
If something is buffeted by strong winds or by stormy seas, it is repeatedly struck or blown around by them.
Their plane had been severely buffeted by storms...
他们的飞机遭受到风暴的重创。
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。
If an economy or government is buffeted by difficult or unpleasant situations, it experiences many of them.
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. pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities
Their plane had been severely buffeted by storms.
他们的飞机遭受到风暴的重创。
to be buffeted by the wind
被风吹得左右摇摆
We were buffeted by the wind and the rain.
我们遭到风雨的袭击.
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.
The ship buffeted her way through the waves.
这只船乘风破浪前进.