Buffet

(noun.) a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers.

(noun.) a meal set out on a buffet at which guests help themselves.

(verb.) strike, beat repeatedly; 'The wind buffeted him'.

(verb.) strike against forcefully; 'Winds buffeted the tent'.

戴夫校对

• The Friar bared his brawny arm up to the elbow, and putting his full strength to the blow, gave the Knight a buffet that might have felled an ox. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• He had stood by Whitney through thick and thin, and had met one buffet after another. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• They buffet with opposing waves, to gain the bloody shore, not to recede from it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The Priest, said Clement, is not half so confident of the Jew's conversion, since he received that buffet on the ear. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The question now is whether we should take a premature lunch here, or run our chance of starving before we reach the buffet at Newhaven. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Truly, friend, said the Friar, clenching his huge fist, I will bestow a buffet on thee. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• It seemed to me that he took all blows and buffets now with just the same air as he had taken mine then. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• His opponent was the son of his principal warder, and was so imprudent as to give the challenge to this barter of buffets. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Was he alone, that long night, whose brave, loving spirit was bearing up, in that old shed, against buffeting and brutal stripes? 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Behold us now in our frail tenement, hemmed in by hungry, roaring waves, buffeted by winds. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Was it you, thus buffeted as you lie here in a heap? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Suddenly everything around him seemed to fade, and a vision rose before him of one crowned with thorns, buffeted and bleeding. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• But what was that--that old gray head that rose above the water's surface, and with looks of agony, and screams for aid, buffeted with the waves! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.

校对:迈克尔