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緩沖物
A buffer is something that prevents something else from being harmed or that prevents two things from harming each other.
例句
Keep savings as a buffer against unexpected cash needs...
存些積蓄以備不時之需。
...a multinational buffer force between the two sides...
雙方之間的多國緩沖力量
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保護(hù)；保障
If something is buffered, it is protected from harm.
例句
The company is buffered by long-term contracts with growers.
公司通過與種植戶簽訂長期合同得到保障。
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（火車上的）緩沖器；（火車軌道末端的）防撞柵
The buffers on a train or at the end of a railway line are two metal discs on springs that reduce the shock when a train hits them.
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（電腦內(nèi)存的）緩沖區(qū)
A buffer is an area in a computer's memory where information can be stored for a short time.
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老糊涂；蠢老頭
If you say that someone, usually a man, is an old buffer, you mean that you think they are rather foolish.
例句
...a collection of old buffers who meet at the Grosvenor House once a month for lunch.
每月一次在格羅夫納大廈進(jìn)行午餐聚會的一群蠢老頭們