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振动; 颤振

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Buffeting \Buf"fet*ing\, n.
   1. A striking with the hand.

   2. A succession of blows; continued violence, as of winds or
      waves; afflictions; adversity.

            He seems to have been a plant of slow growth, but .
            . . fitted to endure the buffeting on the rudest
            storm.                                --Wirt.

Buffet \Buf"fet\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Buffeted}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Buffeting}.] [OE. buffeten, OF. buffeter. See the
   preceding noun.]
   1. To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to cuff;
      to slap.

            They spit in his face and buffeted him. --Matt.
                                                  xxvi. 67.

   2. To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive
      with or contend against; as, to buffet the billows.

            The sudden hurricane in thunder roars, Buffets the
            bark, and whirls it from the shores.  --Broome.

            You are lucky fellows who can live in a dreamland of
            your own, instead of being buffeted about the world.
                                                  --W. Black.

   3. [Cf. {Buffer}.] To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling
      the clapper.

资料来源 : WordNet®

buffeting
     n : repeated heavy blows [syn: {pounding}]