buffer

英 ['b?f?] 美['b?f?]

GRECET6+TEM8低頻詞常用詞匯

復(fù)數(shù):?buffers;第三人稱單數(shù):?buffers;過(guò)去式:?buffered;過(guò)去分詞:?buffered;現(xiàn)在分詞:?buffering;

buffer 緩沖

擬聲詞，模仿物體撞擊護(hù)墊的聲音。

buffer: buffer: Neither buffer ‘fellow’ [18] nor buffer ‘shock absorber’ [19] can be traced back with any certainty to a source, but the likeliest conjecture is that they both come (independently) from an obsolete English verb buff, which was probably originally (like puff) imitative of the sound of blowing or breathing out. The earliest recorded sense of this, in the late 13th century, was ‘stammer’, and so the human buffer may originally have been a ‘stammerer’. By the 16th century we find the verb being used in the sense ‘make the sound of something soft being hit’, which is a likely source of buffer ‘shock absorber’.
buffer (n.): 1835, agent noun from obsolete verb buff "make a dull sound when struck" (mid-16c.), from Old French bufe "a blow, slap, punch" (see buffet (n.2)); hence also "something that absorbs a blow."
buffer (v.): 1894, from buffer (n.). Related: Buffered; buffering.

1. Keep savings as a buffer against unexpected cash needs.: 存些積蓄以備不時(shí)之需。

2. Turkey and Greece were buffer states against the former Soviet Union.: 土耳其和希臘是前蘇聯(lián)與反蘇國(guó)家之間的緩沖國(guó)。

3. Support from family and friends acts as a buffer against stress.: 家庭和朋友的支持有助于減緩壓力。

4. A little money can be a useful buffer in time of need.: 在急需時(shí),很少一點(diǎn)錢(qián)就能解燃眉之急.