a meal at which people serve themselves from a table and then stand or sit somewhere else to eat 自助餐 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，不是坐着等服务员送来的那种。 a finger buffet (= food that you can eat with your hands, not with a knife and fork) 手指自助餐
Extra ExamplesTopics Cooking and eatingc1A finger buffet will be served. 将提供可用手拿食物吃的自助餐。 Breakfast is served buffet style. 早餐是自助式的。 The running buffet is available from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. 自助餐从下午6点供应到凌晨2 点。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- free
- all-you-can-eat
- delicious
- …
- serve
- lay out
- breakfast
- dinner
- lunch
- …
a place, for example in a train or bus station, where you can buy food and drinks to eat or drink there, or to take away （火车）饮食柜台；（车站）快餐部 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- station
- car
- service
- (also buffet car)(British English)
the part of a train where you can buy something to eat and drink （火车）饮食柜台；（车站）快餐部 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- station
- car
- service
- (especially North American English) (also sideboard British and North American English)
a piece of furniture in a dining room for putting food on before it is served, with drawers in it for storing knives, forks, etc. 自助餐： 饭厅中的一件家具，用于在送达食物之前先将食物放进去，抽屉中用于存放刀子，叉子等。
Word Originearly 18th cent. (denoting a sideboard): from French, from Old French bufet ‘stool’, of unknown origin.