音標：
/'bʌfə/
解析：
【名詞】
①緩衝物；起緩衝作用的人
someone or something that protects one thing or person from being harmed by another.
例句：
①Support from family and friends acts as a buffer against stress.
家庭和朋友的支持有助於減緩壓力。 寫作推薦
②She often had to act as a buffer between father and son.
她常常不得不在父子之間扮演調解人角色。
a buffer state(= a small country between two powerful states that helps keep peace between them)
緩衝國(兩敵對大國之間有助於維持和平的小國家)
a buffer zone (= an area of land between two opposing armies or countries)
緩衝區(兩敵對軍隊或國家之間的地區)
②(火車頭尾或軌道末端的)減震器,緩衝器
one of the two special metal springs on the front or back of a train or at the end of a railway track, to take the shock if the train hits something.
③緩存區；緩衝存貯區；緩衝存貯器
a place in a computer’s memory for storing information temporarily.
例句：
It depends upon many variables such as net charge, type of buffer, time, applied potential difference, etc.
④愚蠢老頭
（old-fashioned ）an old man who is not good at managing things.
【動詞】
①減少,減緩(傷害)
to reduce the bad effects of something.
①Consumer spending is buffering the effects of the recession.
②Their savings helped to buffer the effects of the recession.
②緩衝存貯；緩存
if a computer buffers information, it holds it for a short while before using it.
英英釋義：
①Monopoly money refers to the play money used in the board game Monopoly.
另一種解釋：Monopoly Money (or Munny) is what players use to buy properties, construct buildings, and pay rents, fines, or taxes.
註：Monopoly: a board game for two to six players who throw dice to advance their tokens around a board, the object being to acquire the property on which their tokens land（大富翁遊戲）
②Money regarded as not being real or having no real value.
例句：
①After monopoly money was paid for a round-board prototype 10 years ago, prices ironically plummeted.
註：plummet表示「突然下跌」，之前在 分類詞彙|「decrease」的同義替換詞彙中總結了26個「decrease」的同義詞，感興趣的小夥伴可以看看~
②The currency was reduced to monopoly money due to hyperinflation.
拓展:
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https://monopoly.fandom.com/wiki/Monopoly_Money