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verb kɑːstkæst
[with object]

  • 1literary usually with adverbial of direction Throw (something) forcefully in a specified direction.

    猛扔，掷，投，抛

    he cast the book down on to the chair angrily
    the fishermen cast a large net around a school of tuna

    渔夫们朝一群金枪鱼撒了张大网。

    figurative individuals who do not accept the norms are cast out from the group

    〈喻〉不接受规范的个人会被群体摒弃。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • That's a lot of bread that could have been cast upon the waters.
    • I have had very close friends in the fishing community basically cast me out of their circles for criticizing commercial fishers.
    • In this kind of world, the weak and feeble minded are cast to the side to die an unambiguous death, while the strong and wise go on to live a fruitful, long life.
    • She cast it aside forcefully and with stony eyes, turned to Dimitri.
    • On putting it on she was cast into the water and later rescued.
    • When looking for inspiration he casts his net wide, with verses reflecting a wide range of ideas and affording readers a glimpse of his positive and often entertaining take on life.
    • The dead had long since been cast over the side, their scant possessions and weapons cradled in their embrace.
    • Again, I have difficulty imagining anyone casting their contraceptives to the wind on hearing about this one.
    • They give up their particular claim to sovereignty and cast themselves on the waters.
    • The preceding verses establish the fact that Satan was cast out of heaven.
    • He then took his books and staff and cast them into the sea, openly vowing to give up his long-held practice of sorcery.
    • The book casts its net widely, aiming at different demographics.
    • In short, historians very often have to cast their research net a lot wider in order to find evidence relating to a particular topic.
    • While your heart may be set on the University of Michigan or Yale, cast your net wide.
    • Our forebears were cast out from their homeland by the ruling class.
    • So just as prisoners are cast out of mainstream society, prisons exist largely out of mainstream public life.
    • The priest dribbled wine on the lamb's head, and meal and salt, then cut off some of the wool from between the horns and cast that on the altar fire.
    • Death and hell will be cast into the lake of fire.
    • There was to be no happy ending as her husband suddenly died leaving her a widow, a desperate state for any Indian woman as it cast her out of society and made her a non-person.
    • With that, she took the plunge into the Thames and was soon among her fellow athletes, bobbing along like beads cast into the water.
    Synonyms
    throw, toss, fling, pitch, hurl, bowl, dash, shy, lob, launch, flip, let fly, direct, discharge, project, propel, send
    informal chuck, heave, sling, bung
    1. 1.1 Throw the hooked and baited end of (a fishing line) out into the water.
      抛鱼钩
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He had more chance of catching something in a jam jar than where he had cast his lines but we didn't have the heart to nip back and tell him.
      • Two men are sitting on the jetty, fixing bait to hooks and casting fishing-lines out into the water, chatting quietly in Spanish and sipping from bottles of Corona.
      • Even at that hour, the bay was already dotted with the boats of fishermen casting their lines.
      • They were casting fishing lines into the water.
      • Many a man will cast a line with several hooks hoping that at least one fish will bite, some play it courageously with all their luck on one hook.
      • Many cast a line off the stern door at night to fish, sometimes not that successfully.
      • Good thing, too, as we observe two fishermen casting lines nearby.
      • Lovely it was - with fishermen on the rocks in each little inlet, happily casting their lines, sipping on a beer, gazing at the sea.
      • A mid-sized rig loomed in the distance, floating on the water with several fishing lines cast over the sides.
      • It is an all too common fallacy that anglers fishing havens such as the Ebro only have to bait a line, cast it in and the fish, both large and numerous will duly oblige!
    2. 1.2 Let down (an anchor or sounding line).
      抛锚；放测深索
      Example sentencesExamples
      • As a result, the ship's captain decides to pull up the sails and cast anchor for awhile until the wind returns.
      • When the anchor was cast, he left the vessel with a purple face.
      • Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.
      • This captain of the ship decides to cast anchor after leaving Java because of a storm.
      • Other times, resupply stations are available for you to cast your anchor at for repairs.
    3. 1.3with adverbial of direction Direct (one's eyes or a look) at something.
      将（视线，目光）投向
      she cast down her eyes

      她垂下了双眼。

      with two objects she cast him a desperate glance

      她绝望地瞥了他一眼。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • He kept looking in my direction, casting hateful glares.
      • The anxious looks they cast backwards were not directed at her.
      • Ryann cast him a mournful glance, before walking back to the kitchen.
      • Toby shook his head and cast a quick, worried glance in Indy's direction.
      • When I looked out of the kitchen window these two were casting a watchful eye over the boys' activities.
      • Her touch, the hint - no more than that - of her body against mine, and the looks she occasionally cast up at me were all utterly, utterly feminine.
      • Phin raised an eyebrow before shifting Steph off his shoulder and turning onto his side, casting Dev another thoughtful glance.
      • I look at him and nod before casting my eyes to the ground.
      • She hesitated, cast her eyes downward, and looked inexplicably sad.
      • The doctor lowered his weapon as his eyes cast a cold look around the camp.
      • We averted our eyes, from time to time casting a shifty glance in his direction.
      • Before he left he cast a look around his immaculate house, his sharp eyes scanning every corner.
      • Jeremy cast a desperate look over his shoulder - where were the cameras?
      • Judy narrowed her eyes, cast a critical look at the laughing woman standing next to a small, plump girl, and threw the picture in the box.
      • I am older, wiser, and have trained myself to cast a critical cold eye on absolutely everything, including my past self.
      • Sydney looks away, casting her eyes to the side rather than returning the gaze.
      • Whenever colleagues walk by my desk, they cast worried looks my way.
      • Some were whispering furiously, casting scared glances over their shoulders.
      • He walked up the stairs and found Rena sitting on his bed and her eyes were cast down.
      • Cooper crossed his arms over his chest, his eyes still cast downward.
      • The sailors cluster together nervously, casting frightened glances towards the nearby dark trees.
      Synonyms
      direct, shoot, turn, throw, send, dart, bestow, give

  • 2with adverbial of place Cause (light or shadow) to appear on a surface.

    投射（光，影）

    the moon cast a pale light over the cottages

    苍白的月华洒落在农舍上。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Before long I laid down and fell asleep, the sun still casting a red glow over the horizon.
    • During a solar eclipse the Moon moves across the Sun, blocking its light and casting a shadow onto the Earth.
    • Its rays of light cast eerie shadows that danced on the wall and the ceiling.
    • The sun cast a golden radiance upon the grey-green waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
    • At the same time, higher interest rates are casting a shadow over the housing market.
    • Helmet-mounted lights cast less shadow, which can mess with your depth perception.
    • His family was decimated by tuberculosis, casting a shadow over the rest of his life and career.
    • Beneath the cloudy sky, the green and blue shade cast by the giant trees fell in a mottled pattern on the forest floor.
    • It is still casting a shadow over the whole perception of the council - the honourable thing would have been for him to resign.
    • The emotional meeting cast new light on the islanders' historic role and the impact their brief meeting with Kennedy had on their lives.
    • The posters were lit softly in the light, shadows cast in the corners farthest from the window.
    • The moon cast shadows of silver light, which lay in pools on the bedspread.
    • The figure loomed mysteriously in the shadows casting a long shadow from a street lamp.
    • The unremitting whiteness of the walls is anchored by a black marble floor that casts seductive glossy reflections and will age gracefully despite intense use.
    • It will also fuel inflation, which is already casting a shadow over economic forecasts.
    • When we reach the waterline, the full moon has risen, casting steely light over the boulders that Graham has strategically positioned along the shore.
    • The glow still present, the figure turned, revolving, and the dim light cast a monstrous shadow of it on the trunk of a tree nearby.
    • We have new blinds to put up when we're finished decorating, but in the meantime we've tacked an old sheet across the window to stop people from looking in, and it's casting an eerie blue glow around the room.
    • She's standing beside an electric sign, which casts a blue and red glow onto her willowy frame.
    • The room was dark except for the light from the computer monitor, which cast a ghostly blue shade on the mother and daughter's faces.
    Synonyms
    emit, give off, send out, send forth, shed, radiate, diffuse, spread out
    form, create, make, produce, cause
    project, throw
    1. 2.1 Cause (uncertainty or disparagement) to be associated with something.
      把（怀疑，轻视）加于
      journalists cast doubt on the government's version of events

      新闻记者质疑政府对该事件的解释。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • The trials cast doubt on the official departmental line that the risk of a return of foot and mouth is ‘unlikely’.
      • Recent evidence has cast doubt on the link between nitrates and stomach cancer.
      • In this case, the borrower's credit history has cast doubt on his repayment capacity.
      • But criminal law experts have cast doubt on whether her actions amount to a crime under English law, and a prosecution seems unlikely.
      • Aspersions were also cast over his longevity at the highest level of the game.
      • Both British and German intelligence officials cast doubt on the story.
      • Nor have I any intention of casting aspersions against whichever 20 writers make the list in January.
      • Research in Glasgow has cast doubt on the mental and physical tasks that police have been using for three years to try to crack down on what is feared to be an epidemic of drug driving.
      • Parent groups also cast doubt on whether the idea was practical and whether it would have the desired effect.
      • Some scientific experts cast doubt on the letter's authenticity.
      • But other nutrition experts cast doubt on whether fasting should be reintroduced as a weight-loss technique.
      • Defence officials, however, have cast doubt on the authenticity of the pictures.
      • The larger cost, however, is that a great specter of doubt has been cast over almost every drug manufacturer in the country.
      • From time to time people cast doubt on the ability of such ancient texts to speak to people so far removed in time.
      • What happens when any party in the process notes questionable behavior that casts doubt on an individual's fitness for ministry?
      • But they also cast aspersions on women who choose prostitution as a profession, and did not mention the men.
      • The police cast doubt on this story by painstaking work with the records of mobile phone companies.
      • Recent studies cast doubt on the clinical value of school-based screening programs.
      • Legal advisors also cast doubt on the usefulness of evidence arising from the disappeared witness.
      • Right from the outset, the police cast doubt on the sabotage theory.

  • 3with adverbial of direction Discard.

    抛弃

    he jumped in, casting caution to the wind

    他跳了进去，把小心谨慎抛到了九霄云外。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Plastic everything was cast away everywhere, along with old one-of-a-kind sneakers, worn out towels and pieces of clothing.
    • Yet both courtyards call the resident gardeners to cast off clippers and broom and live in the garden itself: welcoming friends, soaking up sunshine, cherishing solitude.
    • Across the globe, attempts to cast off the shackles of capitalist oppression met similar fates.
    • If I cast from my mind every malefaction our people have committed, I will become a malefactor myself.
    • But when the last one ended, that anxiety was cast away.
    • You don't know whether to cast caution to the wind and make an offer, or wait to see if something better comes along.
    • What percentage of the population has been cast away, not counted any more as unemployed, although they are unemployed, and in need of employment?
    • I would note, in addition, that Milton casts off metaphor in favor of ever more direct comments about families.
    • His observations revealed that the two creatures were in fact one and the same: the adult develops inside the swimming larva, whose body is cast away when the adult takes up residence on the seabed.
    • That was the year when, casting off her teen-pop image, she scandalised polite society with the video for her new single.
    • The English department is a living graveyard of all the dead and discredited ideologies that have been cast off by other departments.
    • Too often, graphic novels are cast off as nothing more than kid stuff, pronounced so be people who say the word comics with a sneer.
    • And those that are intended to amuse oneself at the cost of others should definitely be cast away on the rubbish heap.
    • Of late I have cast my caution to the winds and ventured an answer to this most impossible of questions.
    • Once she casts off the self-parodying gloom of her early scenes, we see why she is so often called ‘luminous.’
    • All past acquaintanceships, friendships, love affairs, punch-ups, and the like must be cast from the judges' minds.
    • After a few months in the goldfields, he had cast off genteel reserve and adopted the confident, tough-guy pose suited to his new status as a brash fortune-seeker.
    Synonyms
    discard, reject, cast/throw away, cast/throw out, dispense with, get rid of, dispose of, abandon
    1. 3.1 Shed (skin or horns) in the process of growth.
      （生长过程中）蜕（皮）；脱（角）
      the antlers are cast each year

      鹿角每年都要脱一次。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • A film of liquid develops between the two layers of skin, which later makes it easier for the animal to cast its skin.
      • Lice seen on chairs, pillows, and hats are dead, sick, or elderly or are cast skins of lice - these cannot infect a person.
      • The male roe deer casts its antlers every winter.
      • The moose had started to cast their horns about Christmas time.
      • Bed bugs cast their skin each time they grow.
      Synonyms
      shed, discard, slough off, throw off, get rid of, let fall, let drop
      moult, peel off
      technical exuviate
    2. 3.2 (of a horse) lose (a shoe).
      （马）失（蹄铁）
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Tied to his saddle is a sponge, for cooling him down, and a bag packed with hi - tech equine electrolytes, snacks and the horse equivalent of a spare tyre, a rubber boot in case he casts a shoe.
      • When his horse cast two shoes, he stopped at a farm to have them replaced and dallied there afterward for several minutes to avoid going out in a heavy shower.
      • The pony had cast its shoe and must be shod before next day.
      • Under normal conditions, if a horse has cast a shoe, I can get out in a day or two and put it back on.
      • Horsey people wonder how horses in books get ridden hundreds of miles without ever casting a shoe or eating more than a bit of grass during their time off.

  • 4Shape (metal or other material) by pouring it into a mould while molten.

    浇铸（金属等）

    when hammered or cast, bronze could be made into tools
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Brooches were made either by hammering a piece of metal into the right shape or by casting molten metal in a mould.
    • The background depicts a worker casting metal in a foundry's workshop.
    • Cast iron is very versatile, as it can be poured into moulds when molten and cast into complicated shapes, but is very brittle.
    • Back in 1856, he patented a steel-making process for casting strip steel.
    • Virtually all copper alloys can be cast successfully by the centrifugal casting process.
    • A variety of materials such as stone, metal, and sandy clays have been used to form the mould in which metal is cast.
    • Aluminum is one of the few metals that can be cast by all of the processes used in casting metals.
    • Steel can be cast into bars, strips, sheets, nails, spikes, wire, rods or pipes as needed by the end user.
    • He stared into space as his teacher explained the principles of casting metal into various shapes.
    • It casts molten silicon in moulds, just as metal components are cast.
    • It was also popular as a material for ornamentation, being versatile and easily shaped or cast into different patterns.
    • Fondant can also be cast in moulds and allowed to set.
    • Pewter was used to make cheap jewellery and was cast in moulds made from antler, engraved Roman tiles and clay, although stamped pewter jewellery was also made.
    Synonyms
    mould, fashion, form, shape, model
    sculpt, sculpture, frame, forge, carve
    make, create, build, manufacture
    1. 4.1 Make (a moulded object) by casting metal.
      铸造
      a bell was cast for the church

      为教堂铸造了一口钟。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Simple shapes such as plates and spoons could be cast in a two-part mould, but complex forms such as tankards or flagons needed multi-part moulds.
      • Bells can be hollowed from wood or made from glass or ceramics, but most are cast or forged from metal.
      • The dog, cast in bronze by a local sculptor, was erected in 1932 to commemorate the district's pioneer settlers.
      • Those who could afford it wore medals struck in silver, but the ordinary people purchased medals cast in less expensive metals.
      • Visitors were also shown vases that were cast from the same material and turned on a wood lathe.
      • Made in the last year of Hanson's life, this was the artist's first sculpture cast in bronze.
      • In those days type was cast in hot metal on Linotype machines and if power was off, the metal went cold.
      • The Lord Lieutenant of East Yorkshire, Richard Marriott, travelled down to the foundry where the six bells have been cast to inspect them for himself.
      • He appears to have devised a successful mould for casting regularly sized and spaced metal type, a heavy ink that would adhere to this type, and a variation of a press that would give an impression on paper.
      • Later he had his works cast in bronze and sometimes added elements in welded steel.
      • She then has these objects cast in metal to make them permanent.
      • And it is hoped the bells, which are to be cast in Holland, will be heard for the first time in September on the 150th anniversary of the founding of the village.
      • When cast in bronze, the statue is expected to weigh a tonne.
      • From these moulds he could then cast waxes to use as the masters for the bronze casting.
      • For nearly a century, the text to be printed was cast in hot metal, using monotype to set single characters or linotype to set text line by line.
      • Apart from being very difficult to cast a solid bronze figure without distortion, the weight would be a major problem.
      • The source for this date is found in a petition for a bell to be cast in the year 840.
      • Pins, buckles and discs were all being cast, but the moulds were mainly for penannular brooches.
      • The figurine could have been cast from a clay mould made with a bronze fitting of a jug handle or a steelyard weight.
      • A plaster mold was made when the body parts were to be cast in bronze metal because molten bronze would destroy a rubber mold.
    2. 4.2 Arrange and present in a specified form or style.
      安排，表现
      he issued statements cast in tones of reason

      他以理性的口吻发表声明。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • First, the rhetoric requires motherhood to be cast in unrealistically negative terms.
      • You don't see reporters cast in a good light anymore.
      • Will the resident antipathy towards America in other spheres be cast in the same style?
      • He has been cast in a certain way by his silence because he thought the right thing to do was to work with the police and not come on your show.
      • Behavior can usually be cast in positive or negative terms.

  • 5Register (a vote)

    登记（选票），投（票）

    votes have been cast in 40 per cent of the seats

    对40%的席位投了票。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Such activities disenfranchise those who properly register to vote and cast valid ballots.
    • Bolton election staff have started opening postal ballots already cast by voters in the General Election.
    • A total of 11,417 votes were cast in favour of a strike and 4,316 were cast against.
    • On Saturday week, 600,000 young people will cast their first ever vote in a federal election.
    • By lunchtime, across East Timor, four out of five of those who had registered had cast their votes.
    • It is, of course, utterly presumptuous to declare the race over before a single vote has been cast.
    • The votes have been cast and the deadline of May 15 has long passed.
    • This is the first time that the union has has cast such a vote.
    • A vast number of early votes and absentee votes have been cast.
    • The poll was run from the council's website and votes could be cast either by computer or a mobile phone.
    • The company needs to gain 75 per cent of the vote that is cast at a general meeting in August.
    • Postal votes can be cast any time until and including June 10, providing they are received by 10 pm at the address on the return envelope.
    • Each person will have their own unique polling number which will give them access to each service, ensuring that fraudulent votes cannot be cast.
    • That forces us to consider the votes that were not cast.
    • The votes have been cast and the winners of the Croydon Champion Art Challenge have been chosen.
    • The bill is silent on how votes will be cast, including the possibility of postal ballots.
    • The 488 voters cast 2,226 votes for 454 different books about Montana.
    • Fears that insufficient votes would be cast persisted up until the referendum took place on February 20.
    • Reaching the age of eighteen was quite significant for me, as it allowed me the opportunity to cast my first parliamentary vote.
    • Ballot boxes will be left to gather dust in the June elections, as every vote will be cast by post.
    Synonyms
    register, record, enter, file, lodge, post, set down, vote
    allot, assign, give

  • 6Cause (a magic spell) to take effect.

    使（魔咒）生效，施法

    the witch cast a spell on her to turn her into a beast

    巫婆施法，把她变成了野兽。

    figurative the city casts a spell on the visitor

    〈喻〉这座城市把游客迷住了。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In Corsica it's difficult to decide whether it's the coastline or the interior which casts the strongest spell.
    • Offering these items is a sign of friendliness on the part of those who give them, while accepting or requesting them indicates trust that a spell has not been cast over them.
    • If all spells could be cast with just the wave of a hand, only chaos would come from it.
    • She then casts a sleep spell on the soldiers, too see what happens next.
    • Her child, who would be born with the ability to wield magic, would not cast a single spell until certain conditions were met.
    • A spell will be cast and he will become a squirrel for the rest of his life.
    • By the time I came to work for Michael and Jan, their eighty acres had cast such a spell on them that they did not feel at ease anywhere else.
    • But, Laura says, spells must not be cast to do harm.
    • He was running low on his magic, but he was determined to cast one more spell.
    • Helen said that if someone needed a spell she would cast one provided there was a good enough reason.
    • I had tried to cast the very spell I had vowed never to use again on another human.
    • A marriage certificate does not cast a magic spell of protection.
    • Inside the ‘wagon’ it lay bare except for some crates of different things used for casting spells.
    • One of these spells, when cast successfully, can pretty well turn the tide of battle.
    • Without adequate meditation, she wouldn't have enough magic energy to cast a spell.
    • An albino displayed in Paris in 1744 at an exhibition cast such a spell over the public that even Voltaire wrote an extensive description of the case.
    • A pint-sized Messiah with scary eyes and an unkempt beard, he throws tantrums rather than casting a spell.
    • The spell that had been cast over him was gone and she'd been the one to break it.
    • I shall cast a magic spell to transport us from the confines of these walls!
    • As depicted in a variety of Chinese-language thrillers, magic spells are cast by drawing special words or symbols on a piece of paper or in the air.
    Synonyms
    bewitch, enchant
    curse, jinx, witch
    North American hex
    Australian point the bone at
    literary entrance

  • 7Calculate and record details of (a horoscope)

    用（星相）占卜

    you can look at the star chart cast at somebody's birth
    Example sentencesExamples
    • As Nick himself puts it, if this is how one sees astrology ‘one may just as easily roll a set of astro-dice as go to the bother of casting a horoscope’.
    • To cast your horoscope, your exact time, place, and date of birth is required.
    • It contains the blank forms/charts and instructions on how to cast your own natal chart.
    • By 500BC, evidence of a Zodiac had been found and introduced, and personal horoscopes were being cast.
    • At the end I asked her if I could cast her horoscope.
    Synonyms
    calculate, devise, compute, reckon, determine, assess, work out, formulate, record, write
    predict, forecast, foretell, foresee, prophesy

  • 8no object, usually with adverbial of direction (in country dancing) change one's position by moving a certain number of places in a certain direction along the outside of the line in which one is dancing.

    （乡村舞蹈中的）转向（舞者沿外线移动位置）

    cross the set and cast down one place
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Bottom couple dance together up the middle of the set, and cast out and down the outside back to places.
    • Then the boy and the girl would cast down and circle with the bottom couple.
    • Come back up to where you started and cast round one couple to progress.

  • 9Hunting
    no object (of a dog) search in different directions for a lost scent.

    〔猎〕（狗）四处探寻失踪的嗅迹

    the dog cast furiously for the vanished rabbit

    这条狗疯狂寻找那消失的野兔嗅迹。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Both dogs were casting in front of me when a mountain quail flushed from between my legs.
    • This gave the Field a chance to catch up while the hounds cast back and picked up the line without help from the Master.
    • Horses and men were standing all close together, while the hounds were casting for a scent.
    • We have a special field Master, who is giving a commentary to those who are introduced to it to explain to them why the hounds are casting, what they are doing and all the difficulties and so forth.
    • The dogs were casting about, in search of a scent that was not there, obviously distressed.
    • He sat up and looked to where the dogs cast for his trail.
    1. 9.1with object Let loose (hounds) on a scent.
      〔猎〕放开（猎狗）以探寻嗅迹
      casting the hounds into cover, we stood and listened
      Example sentencesExamples
      • When the pack loses the scent, the huntsman will cast the hounds again.
      • The huntsman casts the hounds usually with the wind at his back.
      • Casting the hounds into the cover we stood on the edge of a steep gorge and listened for a sound of the hounds working.
      • Red-coated huntsmen drive and cast the dogs into promising spots with whoops and short blasts from a small fox horn.
      • If the hounds do not by themselves recover the line, the huntsman will try to assist by ‘em>casting’ the pack in the direction which his experience tells him that the hare may have taken.

  • 10Immobilize (an animal, especially a cow) by using a rope to cause it to fall on its side.

    用绳子绊倒（动物，尤指母牛）

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Small animals may be cast by placing a lark's head hitch around the thorax and abdomen.
    • If that had not worked we would have used ropes to cast the cow.
    • Casting the cow and placing her in dorsal recumbency may greatly facilitate extension of the fetal head.
noun kɑːstkæst

  • 1An object made by shaping molten metal or similar material in a mould.

    铸件，塑件

    bronze casts of the sculpture

    雕塑的青铜铸件。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Sonja Landweer is exhibiting a series of bronze casts taken from ceramic moulds.
    • The garden's been maintained as she kept it and is full of her sculptures: from 1958, she kept back artist's casts of many of her bronzes, placing them here.
    • Each stage is also designated by a set of realistic casts of figures being born, getting married and so forth.
    • He once made a bronze cast of his own hand, which he used to grip a sapling.
    • His multi-figure bronze casts portray a breadline, an Appalachian farm couple and a man listening to one of FDR's fireside chats.
    • Among the other five pieces here are two compositions that are each shown in two versions - the original assemblage and a bronze cast.
    • Greece has promised to make casts of the sculptures for the British Museum and bear all the costs of returning them to Athens.
    • After the metal has cooled, the mould is broken open and the solid cast is now ready for use.
    • Previously, like Rodin and his followers, Brancusi had modelled his sculptures in clay or plaster and then made bronze casts.
    • The rooms I like best are the ones that contain casts of all sorts of astonishing statues, monuments and sections of famous architecture.
    • A second bronze cast of the statue is at the top of the stairs in the Century Association.
    • However there is more than meets the eye as the sculpture is actually a bronze cast realistically painted.
    • Maudslay must also have seen the superb casts of European sculptures exhibited in the Architectural Courts of the South Kensington Museum, which had opened in 1873.
    • Peer at the piece very closely and you may just make out the traces of what look like scars on the surface of the cellulose paint which coats these two huge bronze casts.
    • The bronze depicted here is one of eight casts created in 1955.
    • They're everywhere; his signature, their presence captured in Snowdon's great 1988 photograph and in those ubiquitous casts in plaster and bronze.
    • The room has a great light fixture, by Artemide, and truly original artwork in the cast of a broken piano that artist Leesa French found in a rubbish tip.
    • It has casts of virtually all his sculptural work.
    • There is no evidence of retouching to the cast, which suggests that the mould was of the highest quality.
    1. 1.1 A mould used to make an object by casting.
      the artist's casts and moulds became the property of the museum
      Example sentencesExamples
      • These sheets are fed into large presses with casts shaped into a particular body panel, like a door, bonnet roof and bodies.
      • When a metal enters a cast, it may appear to flow uniformly.
      • Molten metal flows in a white-hot stream into the giant cast for one of York Minster's six new bells.
      • The models began life sculpted in clay, before a plaster cast was used to mould the final version in glass fibre, with the knight and the totem pole finished to look like bronze, the helmet in iron.
      • Foundry staff, working on the new York Minster bells, pour molten metal into an underground cast.
      • When Elgin first went to Athens, his intention was simply to make a plaster cast of the sculptures.
      • It is such a gratifying and easy task to chat about life and times using literary works as a basis, just as it is more gratifying and easier to copy from a plaster cast than to draw a living body.
      • The casts were then cut open and used as templates; the assemblages of welded rods are three-dimensional sketches of individuals in zigzags of bright white metal.
      • The break turned out to be fairly minor, as these things go, and since the bone was in a stabilised position, I didn't even need a cast.
      • Model eggs were made of plaster-of-Paris from casts of real cowbird eggs and painted with acrylic paints and polyurethane to mimic real cowbird eggs.
      Synonyms
      mould, die, form, matrix, shape, casting, template, pattern, frame
      sculpture, model, replica, copy, representation, mock-up, imitation, reproduction, figure
    2. 1.2 A bandage stiffened with plaster of Paris, moulded to the shape of a limb that is broken and used to support and protect it.
      （支撑或保护断肢的）石膏绷带
      I had to spend a month in a cast
      Example sentencesExamples
      • At this point I noticed that the girl, who was about 18 years old, had her left leg in a cast from above the thigh to the bottom of her foot.
      • We got him out of the plaster cast and he's been able to move his wrist freely at a very early stage.
      • They put a plaster cast on my foot, right up to my knee.
      • Why aren't some types of broken bones put in casts right away?
      • Orthopedic technologists traditionally remove casts and prepare types of traction.
      • He fractured four bones in his wrist and will wear a cast for three months before beginning physical therapy.
      • In fact, he was so desperate to get back on to his bike that we had to tell the doctor a little lie to persuade him to remove the plaster cast.
      • After checking the x-rays, Rachael can see the wrist is broken and Sammy will need a plaster cast fitted.
      • I had just finished applying a cast to her fractured wrist.
      • Mom was lying in her bed, arm in a cast, and bandage on her forehead.
      • Some members of this profession specialize in a narrow range of conditions, for example, bonesetters, who make casts and medicines for broken limbs.
      • I am having the plaster cast removed at the end of the week so I will be okay.
      • Every six weeks she had to go to hospital and have the casts changed under general anaesthetic to accommodate her growing frame.
      • He has had the cast removed from his broken arm and is now working on building up the muscle and on his overall conditioning.
      • Not all skiing accidents can be mended with a plaster cast or bandage.
      • He then saw a doctor, had his old plaster cast removed, had his leg re-plastered, had another x-ray and finally saw the doctor again, who checked the x-rays and told him he could go home - all of this in just under two hours.
      • The guy had one arm in a plaster cast and he's lucky it's not two now.
      • Just out of his body cast and into a metal brace, Patchen still lacked mobility and so began to look around for a house nearby.
      • The girl was totally wrapped in casts and bandages.
      • Joshua, who is encased from hip to neck in a plaster cast to protect his weak bones, had a huge smile on his face throughout

  • 2An act of throwing something forcefully.

    猛扔，掷，投，抛

    he grabbed a spear for a third cast

    他抓住标枪，做第三次投掷。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • His arm goes back for a mighty cast of the lance.
    1. 2.1Fishing A throw of a fishing line.
      〔渔〕抛钓丝
      I swung the rod out for a cast
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In the next four casts, I had four more pike averaging some six pounds.
      • First cast, the fly landed lightly, then drifted downstream for about three yards.
      • On the third cast, I could see a wake behind the fly, but ran out of water before the fish would take.
      • After a few hopeful short casts, I punched out as far as possible, to the deeper channel, about twenty yards off the sandbar.
      • After about ten casts Alf caught a trout and was delighted.
    2. 2.2British The leader of a fishing line.
      〔渔〕抛钓丝
    3. 2.3archaic A throw or a number thrown at dice.
      〈古〉掷骰子；掷骰的点数
      'tis no winning cast
      Example sentencesExamples
      • When they have lost all their money they will play for their houses, their land, and their wives even, whose destiny often depends on a cast of the dice.
      • Players use the dice to score points without losing all their chips but a single strategic play of a card or lucky cast of the dice can turn the game around.
      • His own fault he hides, as a cheat hides an unlucky cast of the die.
      Synonyms
      throw, toss, fling, pitch, hurl, shy, lob, flip

  • 3in singular, with adjective or noun modifier The form or appearance of something, especially someone's features or complexion.

    形状；外观，外貌

    she had a somewhat masculine cast of countenance

    她的面容有些男相。

    the colours he wore emphasized the olive cast of his skin

    他穿的衣服颜色突出了他橄榄色的皮肤。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Most of the other, longer-wavelength colors of the Sun pass directly through the air, giving the Sun a yellowish cast.
    • He had been picked for the Western cast of his features and his ability to follow orders.
    • She paused to look at him, and noticed something strange, an odd cast to his features.
    • He has a Slavic cast of feature, which he acknowledges helps him to adopt a cloak of invisibility.
    • The leaves often take on a bronze cast, making this plant all the more interesting.
    • He was eerily calm all of a sudden, but had a sinister cast to his features as he smirked.
    1. 3.1 The character of something.
      特性，特点
      this question is for minds of a more philosophical cast than mine

      这个问题适合那些比我更具哲学头脑的人。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Needless to say, this puts a substantially different cast on things.
      • It is most satisfying to the scientific cast of mind to suppose that a rule which is confirmed whenever it is tested will apply generally in all cases in which the relevant conditions are met.
      • This leads to a confusion about the philosophical cast of mind of most people who vote Democrat.
      • Only die-hards or those of a philosophical cast of mind fail to see the futility of that.
      • His voice took on a low and serious cast.
      • While much of the information Patterson covers is not new ground, there is a decidedly different cast to her research.
      Synonyms
      type, sort, kind, variety, class, style, stamp, nature, manner, pattern, grain, mould, ilk, kidney, strain, brand, genre
      turn, inclination, bent

  • 4A slight squint.

    轻度斜视

    he had a cast in one eye

    他一只眼睛轻度斜视。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He wore glasses to correct a slight cast and would never use one word where a novel would do.
    • She was short, with heavy thighs, bad legs, and a cast in one eye.
    • The man spoke with a slushy, unfamiliar accent; his nose was splayed to the left and he had a cast in his right eye.
    Synonyms
    squint, cross-eyes
    British informal boss-eye
    technical strabismus

  • 5

    short for worm cast
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This is the yellow-faced blenny, often found in old tubeworm casts and even discarded shells.
    • The bacterial population of a cast is much greater than the bacterial population of either ingested soil, or the earthworm's gut.
    • There is one exception to this behaviour, and that is the specialised hermit crab Parugrita, which uses a crack in the reef or a discarded tubeworm cast as a home.
    • The removal of a cast leaves the channel open to direct water infiltration and might expose the worm to direct sunlight.
    1. 5.1 A pellet regurgitated by a hawk or owl.
      （鹰或猫头鹰的）颗粒状呕吐物

  • 6Hunting
    A wide search made by a hound or pack of hounds to find a trail.

    （猎狗）探寻嗅迹

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is always great impertinence in a huntsman to pretend to make a cast himself, before the hounds have made theirs.
    1. 6.1Australian, NZ A wide sweep made by a sheepdog in mustering sheep.
      〈澳／新西兰〉（牧羊犬赶拢羊群时的）四周搜寻

  • 7rare A pair or group of hawks or falcons.

    he gave one thousand pounds for a cast of hawks
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I was in the chamber taking orders about a cast of hawks.
    • A cast of hawks, so low I could touch their wings, fly around me.
    • In nature, Professor Daniels says, "crows would definitely, through teamwork and working together, shoo off a cast of hawks".
    • An eyrie has been observed as long established, from which a gentleman usually obtained his cast of hawks.
    • He had a cast of hawks himself, and expected Lord Orford's falconer on the next morning with a cast and a half more.
    • John recommended to me a cast of hawks which he had at the Hall.

Phrases

  • be cast in a — mould

    • (of a person) be of the type specified.

      为某种类型

      he was cast in a cautious mould

      他生性谨慎。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • He might have been cast in the mould of Baudelaire and Mallarmé, but it was Jean-Jacques Rousseau who was Finlay's real leading light.
      • Jenkins provides an extremely expressive treatment to Lil Armstrong's ‘Brown Gal’ with Doc Cheatham's trumpet firmly cast in a Louis Armstrong mold.
      • In this respect, he was cast in a similar mould to Leonardo da Vinci.
      • From cradle to grave one is cast in the mould of fascismo and there can be no escape.
      • His philosophy, his syntax, his lifestyle are all cast in a Biblical mold.
      • On issues of economic and social policy he was, as an American diplomat put it, ‘cast in an Edwardian mould’.
      • An adamantine character cast in a republican mold helped anchor his pedestal in the national pantheon.
      • Hartson, cast in much the same mould as Hughes, put Wales on their way in Helsinki with the opener before Spurs' Simon Davies sealed victory 18 minutes from time.
      • Our thinking throughout the Session of 1943 was cast in a serious mold, and the legislation it developed was geared to enabling the State of California and its people to make an outstanding contribution to victory and peace.
      • His arrest and deportation in 1907 was his first baptism in fire from which he emerged a high-minded statesman cast in a heroic mould.

  • cast one's eyes over

    • Have a quick appraising look at.

      快速查看

      he was invited to cast his eyes over the exhibition

      他应邀粗略参观一下展览。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • The store's turmoil has led to a number of potential buyers casting their eyes over the company.
      • We knew we were in for a treat as soon as we cast our eyes over the bar menu.
      • Involuntarily, she stepped in, biting the inside of her cheek apprehensively and casting her eyes over the rows of neatly aligned desks in the room.
      • Representatives from local hockey clubs have been invited to attend to cast their eyes over the eight teams taking part.
      • However, having cast their eyes over a video of the incident, the Football Association have now dismissed his appeal.
      • That would give the administrators time to cast their eyes over the offers before Saturday, when it will finally be decided whether the club can be saved.
      • All the member had to do was cast his eyes over the bill in front of him.
      • I cast my eyes over the chocolate fabric of my knee-length pencil skirt for creases, finding none, and dipped my gaze to the conservative black of my kitten heels to check for scuff marks, which were also absent.
      • Investors who may be keen on some exposure to the retail sector should perhaps cast their eyes over grocers, which are generally fairly resilient to economic downturns.
      • Huddles of people jostled around display boards to cast their eyes over proposals including raising the old railway bridge and building a new footbridge over the canal, allowing boats to travel its length.

  • cast light on

    • see light

  • cast lots

    • see lot

  • cast one's mind back

    • Think back to a particular event or time.

      回顾，回忆

      he cast his mind back to the fatal evening

      他回忆起那不幸的傍晚。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • I cast my mind back to that roomful of smart, polished people of position, all radiating effortless composure and calm confidence, walking around, smiling and nodding at each other.
      • Let's cast our mind back to other people who have been named and shamed - including John Leslie, the Hamiltons and Matthew Kelly - only to find out that they were innocent.
      • I am sure that if the letter writer casts their mind back to their teenage years, they did not become a devil at 13 and an angel at 19.
      • Now cast your mind back to February and March of this year when the future of a football club and the hopes and dreams of thousands of fans hung in the balance.
      • There would have been people out and about in the seafront area on the night he was attacked and we are asking people to cast their mind back to Friday, September 17 and try and remember if they saw John.
      • Maeve casts her mind back to the night Frances was crowned the Rose of Sligo and speaks with pride of her youngest daughter.
      • Naturally enough, such an important date made me cast my mind back in an attempt to remember the moment I received my A-level results, some twelve years ago.
      • I should have cast my mind back to the months I spent travelling around Turkey.
      • If you think you are feeling the pinch of the cold January breeze this year, then take heart and cast your mind back to York winters past.
      • I was casting my mind back to that day when I wrote 4,000 words plus, at the end of which my brain had turned to sludge.

  • cast the (or one's) net

    • Search for suitable options or candidates in a specified way.

      Martin vowed he would cast the net far and wide in the search for the best person
      he is prepared to cast his net wide to find workable solutions
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In the beginning we cast our net quiet wide, with people coming from West Cumbria to work here.
      • The book casts its net widely, aiming at different demographics.
      • The solution is to cast your net broadly, targeting a large number of less popular keywords.
      • The trick is to know where to cast the net.
      • Tim Easterby casts his net wide for winners tomorrow.
      • With fewer girls in Mae Sai leaving for the bright lights of Bangkok, agents have cast their nets wider.
      • Detective Inspector Pete Martin said: "We have to cast our net over a huge area".
      • At the same time, Damascus cast its net out for allies.
      • That enables the company to cast its net across its 300-plus employees.
      • The Congress cast its net more widely to effect a more general equilibrium.

Phrasal Verbs

  • cast about (or around or round)

    • Search far and wide (physically or mentally)

      四处寻找；反复思索

      he is restlessly casting about for novelties

      他为了求新而不停思索。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • When the town casts around for someone to blame Vernon is the best available candidate.
      • A biographer in search of a subject must usually cast about among people who have achieved something.
      • Following the phenomenal success of both The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, writer/director Stephen Sommers was casting around for a change of pace.
      • While I've been casting around for reasons to undergo blood transfusions, my father took the time to become genuinely ill.
      • I know it is completely unrealistic, because formally I am not searching, I cast about with my eyes.
      • This is an exciting prospect for someone who's casting around for something to do when her contract's up.
      • The American obsession with dieting dates back to 1961, when a housewife who was seriously obese began casting around for diets.
      • He casts around for an answer but they would all have to start with ‘I am ‘and he just can't do it.
      • He champions what looks suspiciously like a lost cause, courts clubs who have no sympathy for his plight and casts about for players who don't exist.
      • And, if one casts around the world today, one notices the two powers with the worst prospects are the ones most advanced in their post-religiosity.

  • be cast away

    • Be stranded after a shipwreck.

      （船失事后）搁浅

      he returned home three years after being cast away on the island
      Example sentencesExamples
      • While heading home to England, he is cast away on an island, which its geographical proximity to the Americas closely resembles the one in Crusoe.
      • Sometimes, like in a scene on the Cayman Islands when he meets an old man who has been cast away, it seems as if he might spare a paragraph or two for an emotional response.
      • John was cast away on the island of Patmos.
      • Cast away once, onto the desert island, he finds himself cast away again, by his former love.
      • If you are going to be cast away, Robinson Crusoe island is a good place to be.
      • Every year a school class picked at random will be cast away on an abandoned island to fight it out amongst themselves.
      • Already trapped in Fenno-arevo was a small party of slave traders who had also had the misfortune to be cast away on Madagascar's inhospitable south coast after an encounter with pirates.
      • She plays a spoiled rich wife cast away on a desert island with her hunk of a servant, and they seem to smack each other around a lot.
      • Guests on the programme select the luxury item they would need to make their lives a little easier if they were cast away.
      Synonyms
      shipwreck, wreck
      strand, leave stranded, maroon, cast ashore, abandon, leave behind, leave
      informal leave high and dry
      archaic forsake

  • be cast down

    • Feel depressed.

      沮丧

      she was greatly cast down by abusive criticism of her novels

      她因其小说遭到恶毒批评而极为沮丧。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Far from being cast down by the goal, England concentrated on reaching half-time without falling further behind before switching to the attack with renewed vigour.
      • After the birth of Ross, both were cast down and depressed.
      • Take advantage of opportunities, don't be cast down, but rise to the challenge if it does occur
      • After a brief fillip Wall Street went into retreat, cast down by sombre corporate trading news from a range of companies.
      • The joyful ones also tend to draw more friends, who would rather bathe in the sunshine of happiness than to be cast down into a gloomy depression.
      • I was either cast down and disappointed, or raised up and elated, depending on whether I was feeling better or worse.
      • Revived by American aid and by its own exertions, western Germany was more transformed by post-war economic and psychological recovery than it had been cast down by military defeat.
      • This doesn't mean I was a bully, it was just that people couldn't get me down the way other teens would be cast down.
      • They were a group of men who were very distressed, very cast down by their illness and its difficulties.
      Synonyms
      depressed, downcast, unhappy, sad, miserable, gloomy, down, low, blue, melancholy, doleful, mournful
      dejected, dispirited, discouraged, disheartened, downhearted, demoralized, daunted, dismayed, desolate, disconsolate, crestfallen, crushed, sapped, shaken, undermined, despondent, weighed down, oppressed, wretched

  • cast off (or cast something off)

    • 1Knitting
      Take the stitches off the needle by looping each over the next to finish the edge.

      〔编织〕收针

      when the piece of knitting is long enough, cast off
      cast off a few stitches at the armhole
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It was just an experiment piece - where I tried to remember how to knit, purl, cast off, increase and decrease etc.
      • If I were to do it again, I think that I would rework the button band so that I picked up and knitted 5 rows before casting off.
      • Sleeves - why does the pattern tell me to mark the rows and then knit 4 or 5 more rows before casting off?
      • Or perhaps a hand-knitted sweater that looks like granny just cast it off her knitting needles for her favourite grandson?
      • It's a bit nerve-wracking, because you can really see the frill until after the neck edge is cast off.
      • It does feel good to cast off that last stitch and know that there's only a few ends to weave in.
      • Somewhere over the Atlantic on Thursday night, I cast off the last stitch.

    • 2Set a boat or ship free from her moorings.

      解缆放船

      the boatmen cast off and rowed downriver

      船夫解开缆绳，向下游划去。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • No person shall launch or beach a boat or weigh anchor or cast off when the Department has by posting an order prohibiting the same.
      • Joined by ABBM Peter Horne, POMT Chris Shred and CPL Bert Lancaster he cast off and headed to a spot six nautical miles north-north-west of Thursday Island.
      • As the last lines were cast off the ship edged away from the wharf.
      • The ship gave a sudden lurch as the lines were cast off, and began sliding away from the dock in such a way that it seemed the dock itself was receding from them.
      • He cranked the engine, cast off the bow and stern lines, and moved quickly out of the harbor.
      • On August 2, 2003 we cast off from the port of Narssaq, southern Greenland.
      • After trimming the boat, we cast off, Len taking his preferred spot up front, where he can enjoy the rhythm of paddling without the worry of steering.
      • By the time that safety was reached Fitz had picked up the shivering victim, cast off the mooring lines and was motoring out of the marina.
      • Ropes were cast off and stevedores moved in with bargepoles to keep the hull clear of the wharf.
      • Prehistoric seafarers casting off from their home islands to settle elsewhere would have been sure to take along breadfruit trees, which provide an abundance of fruit.
      • Unfortunately they forgot to cast off the mooring line.
      1. 2.1(of a boat or ship) be set free from her moorings.
        解缆放船
        the ferry cast off and made a beeline for the pier
        Example sentencesExamples
        • Then the MV Pharos cast off, sailing away from the pier for the last time, with the piper playing on deck.
        • Some require riverboats to cast off from shore before gaming can begin.
        • Jarrod and Nicola were just some of the hundreds of RAN men and women who shared some tearful minutes on the wharf before the warship cast off.
        • At the otherwise silent hotel, I am woken at 6.30 am by the screech of gulls as the mackerel boats cast off from the harbour and head out on the early-morning tide.
        • It's anchors away as the Fleetwood to Knott End ferry service casts off for its yearly service across the Wyre estuary.
        • The amphibious transport, with 260 sailors and soldiers on board, cast off from the Oil Wharf on May 12.
        • He had come to this conclusion about five minutes into his journey, just after the ship had cast off from the dock.
        • They aimed to beach her, but the inrush of water was too great and the tugs had to cast off as she sank to the sandy bottom at 10.30 pm.
        • Just under an hour later Ironheart cast off from its moorings and slipped out into the current.

    • 3Let loose a hunting hound or hawk.

      放开猎狗（或猎鹰）

    • 4Printing
      Estimate the space that will be taken in print by manuscript copy.

      〔印刷〕（根据原稿件）估计版面篇幅

      Example sentencesExamples
      • The master printer would decide whether the text would be set into type by a single compositor or by a number working simultaneously, in which case the copy would have to be cast off.

  • cast someone off

    • Exclude someone from a relationship.

      与某人绝交

      you told me your family had cast you off
      Example sentencesExamples
      • She used him to get what she wanted and then cast him off.
      • Do you plan to just cast me off when you're finished like all the others?
      • We haven't heard the last of him, and I can't see how Byers can cast him off now.
      • If he was so foolish as to cast you off, he doesn't deserve you anyway.
      • He is eventually ordered to leave her to follow his destiny of founding a new Troy, whereupon he casts her off with tragic consequences.
      • Do not cast me off, do not forsake me, O God of my salvation!
      • Mr Peggotty sets out to find her, following her through many countries, and finally recovering her after she has been cast off by Steerforth.
      • Holt lived, and knew pleasure, because his father had cast him off.
      • His lover makes him wear a long blonde wig, and cruelly casts him off when he's dressed as a man.
      • His mother cast him off because he did not meet her expectations.

  • cast on (or cast something on)

    • Make the first row of a specified number of loops on the needle.

      〔编织〕起针

      cast on and knit a few rows of stocking stitch

      起针，织几行长袜针脚。

      cast on 14 stitches
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Julie cast on in record time, and should be knitting fair isles in no time.
      • Using 2 needles, cast on 98(110:134:146:158:170) stitches.
      • I'm doing the socks on 6 ply yarns so I only have to follow the pattern and cast on 64 stitches.
      • Cast on 52 stitches at end of next row to complete armhole shaping.

  • cast something up

    • 1(of the sea) deposit something on the shore.

      （大海）在岸上沉淀某物，把…冲上岸

      she would collect objects cast up by the tides
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But gourd seeds would not germinate if cast up on a beach; human intervention would be required.
      • One evening, sitting on an upturned boat cast up by the tide, I watched four old women shout derision at a carful of expensive-looking twenty-somethings.
      • There is a sense that the coral looked better where it used to be, either living or cast up as a skeleton on a coral beach somewhere.
      • December storms had beaten her to and fro and at last the sea had cast her up onto the shingle.

    • 2Add up figures.

      〈旧〉把数字加起来

      he could cast up intricate accounts in his head
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I now began to cast up my accounts.

Origin

Middle English: from Old Norse kasta 'to cast or throw'.

Rhymes

aghast, avast, Belfast, blast, caste, contrast, fast, last, mast, miscast, outlast, past, unsurpassed, vast

cast2

nounkɑːstkæst

  • treated as singular or plural The actors taking part in a play, film, or other production.

    （戏剧、电影等的）一组演员

    he draws sensitive performances from his inexperienced cast

    他使麾下稚嫩的演员有了细腻的表演。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The film doesn't take itself too seriously, but draws on raw emotion and features a talented ensemble cast.
    • To be fair to the director and cast, the film achieves some of its stated goals.
    • Most of the cast had their lines memorized, except for Dan, of course.
    • Please come and support the cast of over fifty who has worked hard over the past months to stage this very entertaining Pantomime.
    • You cannot ignore the star-studded cast, because that is the movie's selling point.
    • Based on the Robin Hood tale, this show features a cast of 15 young performers aged from 12-16 years.
    • It has some solid performances, a few laughs and a likable cast of characters.
    • On the day we wrapped shooting the cast and crew threw a big party, but my mother had no intention of letting me go.
    • Many of the film's cast are not professional actors but people who live in the conditions portrayed.
    • The supporting cast each had moments to shine as well.
    • The charismatic young cast handles the material well.
    • But, because of the efforts of the crew and every one of those actors in the cast, the film was completed.
    • In the grand tradition of the Ealing comedies, the film has attracted an all-star cast of character actors.
    • It has one hell of a great cast, wonderful writers and endless material to work with from the media and politics.
    • There were also notable spurts of strange behaviour and panic from cast and crew while filming.
    • As an international co-production, the film also heavily features American actors in the cast.
    • It features a cast of 26 people and is one of the biggest festival productions undertaken in recent years.
    • The supporting cast is also excellent; I didn't find a false note anywhere.
    • An all-male cast of actors is performing one of Shakespeare's favourite comedies in the middle of a Cotswold village at the weekend.
    • Relatively unknown Canadian actors round out the cast, and you won't find fault with any one of them.
verbkɑːstkæst
[with object]

  • 1Assign a part in a play or film to (an actor)

    给（演员）分配角色

    he was cast as a young knight in her lavish historical epic
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Each actor has been perfectly cast in an ideal role.
    • While it is no coincidence that she has twice been cast as a doctor, the actress seems far more hesitant in person, with long pauses punctuating her conversation.
    • Another choice Bergman made was to cast non-professional actors in the leads.
    • She was called back for a second, then a third audition before being cast as an understudy to the lead.
    • Actors are cast as versions of themselves and then left to the mercy of different teams of writers and directors.
    • Was it scary when you realised you were cast as an actress who was called the most beautiful woman in the world?
    • Actors are cast as virtual crew members in prerecorded scenarios that astronauts then use when problems arise.
    • His complete deception regarding taxes and his grandstanding on the issue of unemployment cast him as little more than an opportunistic liar.
    • More than 20,000 background actors were cast for the films
    • He will not play again this season, but it is easy to cast him as a fall guy in a violent business that ice hockey seems to encourage.
    • He will soon be cast as a supporting actor in a film.
    • For the film, Barmak cast non-professional actors from orphanages and refugee camps.
    • However, he is not a romantic lead and should never have been cast as such.
    • Insiders know that when it comes to casting women in his projects, he insists on taking a very active - some might even say hands-on - role.
    • He explains that it's neither easy nor cheap to cast talented actors for just a small number of scenes.
    • An actor can be cast against type and pull out an astounding performance.
    • So surely the central issue for a film depicting such a charismatic character is casting an appropriate actor in the lead role.
    • They were cast as self-interested actors desperate for an escape from poverty, happy to embrace whatever the developed world could offer.
    • He was perfectly cast as the slick detective who played as cool as his perfectly tailored suits.
    • Most of the major roles were cast with actors I already knew and with whom I had acted earlier in my career.
    Synonyms
    choose, select, pick, name, nominate, assign, appoint, give/assign the part to
    1. 1.1 Allocate parts in (a play or film)
      分配角色
      assembling a great baseball team is as tricky as casting a play
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The characters have been well cast and the actors attack the roles with gusto.
      • After he cast the film, we all met at his house for a preliminary discussion, after which he went to Sweden for five days and wrote the script.
      • Of course, perfect casting helped with every role cast with the right actor.
      • The producer works with the writer, casts the film, and supervises the editing.
      • ‘Once we cast the film, we spent a lot of time with the actors,’ he explains.
      • Directors take into account the public's perception of actors and actresses when casting for films.
      • We cast the film at the Shamshatoo refugee camp in Peshawar, on Pakistan's north-western frontier, and at the various markets and schools in the area.
      • In casting the film, efforts were made to include the people who would be directly concerned in the event of a real-life outbreak or who at least worked in a related field.
      • Chemistry is one of those things that just cannot be planned for when casting a film.
      • The garden is running its own show, and like a theatre production that you have cast, directed and produced, the summer is time to sit back and watch the performance.
      • Trying to pick people who are not actors now but are going to be actors is a lot different from casting a play or a movie.
      • The same casting directors were casting those films.
      • When Auerbach was casting the film, she was very aware that the actors had to be plausible together as mother and son.
      • A friend of mine who's casting teenage films in London just shot me in my living room, and we sent it off, and I got the gig.
      • Cars drive on to the beach and disappear towards the russet-coloured cliffs; a hardy soul casts a line.
      • Wednesday, April 28 everybody is pretend casting the movie based on Richard Clarke's book.
      • So there was no ego involved in plotting this film, casting this film, directing, editing - the only thing that mattered was the movie.
      • When you were casting the film, what qualities were you looking for in the lead character?
      • The children were asked to cast a play using their classmates as the actors.
      • Every part in this production was well cast, and each actor plays his or her role ably.

Origin

Mid 17th century: a special use of cast1 in cast1 (sense 4 of the verb).

verb.1
phr.
phr.v.
noun.1

cast1

verbkæstkast

  • 1literary usually with adverbial of direction Throw (something) forcefully in a specified direction.

    猛扔，掷，投，抛

    figurative individuals who do not accept the norms are cast out from the group

    〈喻〉不接受规范的个人会被群体摒弃。

    lemmings cast themselves off the cliff

    他们猛地跳下悬崖。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They give up their particular claim to sovereignty and cast themselves on the waters.
    • The dead had long since been cast over the side, their scant possessions and weapons cradled in their embrace.
    • The preceding verses establish the fact that Satan was cast out of heaven.
    • So just as prisoners are cast out of mainstream society, prisons exist largely out of mainstream public life.
    • I have had very close friends in the fishing community basically cast me out of their circles for criticizing commercial fishers.
    • On putting it on she was cast into the water and later rescued.
    • Our forebears were cast out from their homeland by the ruling class.
    • While your heart may be set on the University of Michigan or Yale, cast your net wide.
    • The priest dribbled wine on the lamb's head, and meal and salt, then cut off some of the wool from between the horns and cast that on the altar fire.
    • Again, I have difficulty imagining anyone casting their contraceptives to the wind on hearing about this one.
    • She cast it aside forcefully and with stony eyes, turned to Dimitri.
    • When looking for inspiration he casts his net wide, with verses reflecting a wide range of ideas and affording readers a glimpse of his positive and often entertaining take on life.
    • In this kind of world, the weak and feeble minded are cast to the side to die an unambiguous death, while the strong and wise go on to live a fruitful, long life.
    • There was to be no happy ending as her husband suddenly died leaving her a widow, a desperate state for any Indian woman as it cast her out of society and made her a non-person.
    • That's a lot of bread that could have been cast upon the waters.
    • In short, historians very often have to cast their research net a lot wider in order to find evidence relating to a particular topic.
    • Death and hell will be cast into the lake of fire.
    • The book casts its net widely, aiming at different demographics.
    • He then took his books and staff and cast them into the sea, openly vowing to give up his long-held practice of sorcery.
    • With that, she took the plunge into the Thames and was soon among her fellow athletes, bobbing along like beads cast into the water.
    Synonyms
    throw, toss, fling, pitch, hurl, bowl, dash, shy, lob, launch, flip, let fly, direct, discharge, project, propel, send
    1. 1.1 Throw (something) so as to cause it to spread over an area.
      抛撒
      the fishermen cast a large net around a school of tuna

      渔夫们朝一群金枪鱼撒了张大网。

      figurative he cast his net far and wide in search of evidence

      〈喻〉他全面撒网以搜寻证据。

    2. 1.2 Throw the hooked and baited end of (a fishing line) out into the water.
      抛鱼钩
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Even at that hour, the bay was already dotted with the boats of fishermen casting their lines.
      • It is an all too common fallacy that anglers fishing havens such as the Ebro only have to bait a line, cast it in and the fish, both large and numerous will duly oblige!
      • He had more chance of catching something in a jam jar than where he had cast his lines but we didn't have the heart to nip back and tell him.
      • Lovely it was - with fishermen on the rocks in each little inlet, happily casting their lines, sipping on a beer, gazing at the sea.
      • Two men are sitting on the jetty, fixing bait to hooks and casting fishing-lines out into the water, chatting quietly in Spanish and sipping from bottles of Corona.
      • Many cast a line off the stern door at night to fish, sometimes not that successfully.
      • Good thing, too, as we observe two fishermen casting lines nearby.
      • A mid-sized rig loomed in the distance, floating on the water with several fishing lines cast over the sides.
      • They were casting fishing lines into the water.
      • Many a man will cast a line with several hooks hoping that at least one fish will bite, some play it courageously with all their luck on one hook.
    3. 1.3 Let down (an anchor or sounding line).
      抛锚；放测深索
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Other times, resupply stations are available for you to cast your anchor at for repairs.
      • When the anchor was cast, he left the vessel with a purple face.
      • As a result, the ship's captain decides to pull up the sails and cast anchor for awhile until the wind returns.
      • This captain of the ship decides to cast anchor after leaving Java because of a storm.
      • Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.
    4. 1.4 Direct (one's eyes or a look) at something.
      将（视线，目光）投向
      she cast down her eyes

      她垂下了双眼。

      with two objects she cast him a desperate glance

      她绝望地瞥了他一眼。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • I look at him and nod before casting my eyes to the ground.
      • Toby shook his head and cast a quick, worried glance in Indy's direction.
      • Phin raised an eyebrow before shifting Steph off his shoulder and turning onto his side, casting Dev another thoughtful glance.
      • The sailors cluster together nervously, casting frightened glances towards the nearby dark trees.
      • The doctor lowered his weapon as his eyes cast a cold look around the camp.
      • Judy narrowed her eyes, cast a critical look at the laughing woman standing next to a small, plump girl, and threw the picture in the box.
      • I am older, wiser, and have trained myself to cast a critical cold eye on absolutely everything, including my past self.
      • Jeremy cast a desperate look over his shoulder - where were the cameras?
      • He kept looking in my direction, casting hateful glares.
      • The anxious looks they cast backwards were not directed at her.
      • He walked up the stairs and found Rena sitting on his bed and her eyes were cast down.
      • Sydney looks away, casting her eyes to the side rather than returning the gaze.
      • Ryann cast him a mournful glance, before walking back to the kitchen.
      • She hesitated, cast her eyes downward, and looked inexplicably sad.
      • Some were whispering furiously, casting scared glances over their shoulders.
      • Whenever colleagues walk by my desk, they cast worried looks my way.
      • Her touch, the hint - no more than that - of her body against mine, and the looks she occasionally cast up at me were all utterly, utterly feminine.
      • When I looked out of the kitchen window these two were casting a watchful eye over the boys' activities.
      • Cooper crossed his arms over his chest, his eyes still cast downward.
      • We averted our eyes, from time to time casting a shifty glance in his direction.
      • Before he left he cast a look around his immaculate house, his sharp eyes scanning every corner.
      Synonyms
      direct, shoot, turn, throw, send, dart, bestow, give

  • 2with adverbial of place Cause (light or shadow) to appear on a surface.

    投射（光，影）

    the moon cast a pale light over the cottages

    苍白的月华洒落在农舍上。

    figurative running costs were already casting a shadow over the program

    〈喻〉运转费已使该计划蒙上阴影。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The room was dark except for the light from the computer monitor, which cast a ghostly blue shade on the mother and daughter's faces.
    • The posters were lit softly in the light, shadows cast in the corners farthest from the window.
    • The figure loomed mysteriously in the shadows casting a long shadow from a street lamp.
    • She's standing beside an electric sign, which casts a blue and red glow onto her willowy frame.
    • The emotional meeting cast new light on the islanders' historic role and the impact their brief meeting with Kennedy had on their lives.
    • His family was decimated by tuberculosis, casting a shadow over the rest of his life and career.
    • At the same time, higher interest rates are casting a shadow over the housing market.
    • Its rays of light cast eerie shadows that danced on the wall and the ceiling.
    • The moon cast shadows of silver light, which lay in pools on the bedspread.
    • Beneath the cloudy sky, the green and blue shade cast by the giant trees fell in a mottled pattern on the forest floor.
    • When we reach the waterline, the full moon has risen, casting steely light over the boulders that Graham has strategically positioned along the shore.
    • It will also fuel inflation, which is already casting a shadow over economic forecasts.
    • During a solar eclipse the Moon moves across the Sun, blocking its light and casting a shadow onto the Earth.
    • The unremitting whiteness of the walls is anchored by a black marble floor that casts seductive glossy reflections and will age gracefully despite intense use.
    • The glow still present, the figure turned, revolving, and the dim light cast a monstrous shadow of it on the trunk of a tree nearby.
    • Before long I laid down and fell asleep, the sun still casting a red glow over the horizon.
    • Helmet-mounted lights cast less shadow, which can mess with your depth perception.
    • We have new blinds to put up when we're finished decorating, but in the meantime we've tacked an old sheet across the window to stop people from looking in, and it's casting an eerie blue glow around the room.
    • The sun cast a golden radiance upon the grey-green waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
    • It is still casting a shadow over the whole perception of the council - the honourable thing would have been for him to resign.
    Synonyms
    emit, give off, send out, send forth, shed, radiate, diffuse, spread out
    form, create, make, produce, cause
    1. 2.1 Cause (uncertainty or disparagement) to be associated with something.
      把（怀疑，轻视）加于
      journalists cast doubt on the government's version of events

      新闻记者质疑政府对该事件的解释。

      I do not wish to cast aspersions on your honesty

      我不想污蔑你的诚实。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • The larger cost, however, is that a great specter of doubt has been cast over almost every drug manufacturer in the country.
      • Defence officials, however, have cast doubt on the authenticity of the pictures.
      • But criminal law experts have cast doubt on whether her actions amount to a crime under English law, and a prosecution seems unlikely.
      • Both British and German intelligence officials cast doubt on the story.
      • Right from the outset, the police cast doubt on the sabotage theory.
      • But other nutrition experts cast doubt on whether fasting should be reintroduced as a weight-loss technique.
      • In this case, the borrower's credit history has cast doubt on his repayment capacity.
      • Parent groups also cast doubt on whether the idea was practical and whether it would have the desired effect.
      • But they also cast aspersions on women who choose prostitution as a profession, and did not mention the men.
      • Research in Glasgow has cast doubt on the mental and physical tasks that police have been using for three years to try to crack down on what is feared to be an epidemic of drug driving.
      • The trials cast doubt on the official departmental line that the risk of a return of foot and mouth is ‘unlikely’.
      • Legal advisors also cast doubt on the usefulness of evidence arising from the disappeared witness.
      • From time to time people cast doubt on the ability of such ancient texts to speak to people so far removed in time.
      • Some scientific experts cast doubt on the letter's authenticity.
      • Recent evidence has cast doubt on the link between nitrates and stomach cancer.
      • Nor have I any intention of casting aspersions against whichever 20 writers make the list in January.
      • What happens when any party in the process notes questionable behavior that casts doubt on an individual's fitness for ministry?
      • Aspersions were also cast over his longevity at the highest level of the game.
      • Recent studies cast doubt on the clinical value of school-based screening programs.
      • The police cast doubt on this story by painstaking work with the records of mobile phone companies.

  • 3with adverbial of direction Discard.

    抛弃

    the issue was cast from the list of concerns
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Of late I have cast my caution to the winds and ventured an answer to this most impossible of questions.
    • You don't know whether to cast caution to the wind and make an offer, or wait to see if something better comes along.
    • If I cast from my mind every malefaction our people have committed, I will become a malefactor myself.
    • All past acquaintanceships, friendships, love affairs, punch-ups, and the like must be cast from the judges' minds.
    • Across the globe, attempts to cast off the shackles of capitalist oppression met similar fates.
    • Plastic everything was cast away everywhere, along with old one-of-a-kind sneakers, worn out towels and pieces of clothing.
    • And those that are intended to amuse oneself at the cost of others should definitely be cast away on the rubbish heap.
    • I would note, in addition, that Milton casts off metaphor in favor of ever more direct comments about families.
    • Yet both courtyards call the resident gardeners to cast off clippers and broom and live in the garden itself: welcoming friends, soaking up sunshine, cherishing solitude.
    • The English department is a living graveyard of all the dead and discredited ideologies that have been cast off by other departments.
    • Once she casts off the self-parodying gloom of her early scenes, we see why she is so often called ‘luminous.’
    • That was the year when, casting off her teen-pop image, she scandalised polite society with the video for her new single.
    • His observations revealed that the two creatures were in fact one and the same: the adult develops inside the swimming larva, whose body is cast away when the adult takes up residence on the seabed.
    • But when the last one ended, that anxiety was cast away.
    • What percentage of the population has been cast away, not counted any more as unemployed, although they are unemployed, and in need of employment?
    • Too often, graphic novels are cast off as nothing more than kid stuff, pronounced so be people who say the word comics with a sneer.
    • After a few months in the goldfields, he had cast off genteel reserve and adopted the confident, tough-guy pose suited to his new status as a brash fortune-seeker.
    Synonyms
    discard, reject, cast away, throw away, cast out, throw out, dispense with, get rid of, dispose of, abandon
    1. 3.1 Shed (skin or horns) in the process of growth.
      （生长过程中）蜕（皮）；脱（角）
      the antlers are cast each year

      鹿角每年都要脱一次。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • The male roe deer casts its antlers every winter.
      • The moose had started to cast their horns about Christmas time.
      • A film of liquid develops between the two layers of skin, which later makes it easier for the animal to cast its skin.
      • Lice seen on chairs, pillows, and hats are dead, sick, or elderly or are cast skins of lice - these cannot infect a person.
      • Bed bugs cast their skin each time they grow.
      Synonyms
      shed, discard, slough off, throw off, get rid of, let fall, let drop
    2. 3.2 (of a horse) lose (a shoe).
      （马）失（蹄铁）
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The pony had cast its shoe and must be shod before next day.
      • Under normal conditions, if a horse has cast a shoe, I can get out in a day or two and put it back on.
      • When his horse cast two shoes, he stopped at a farm to have them replaced and dallied there afterward for several minutes to avoid going out in a heavy shower.
      • Tied to his saddle is a sponge, for cooling him down, and a bag packed with hi - tech equine electrolytes, snacks and the horse equivalent of a spare tyre, a rubber boot in case he casts a shoe.
      • Horsey people wonder how horses in books get ridden hundreds of miles without ever casting a shoe or eating more than a bit of grass during their time off.

  • 4with object Shape (metal or other material) by pouring it into a mold while molten.

    浇铸（金属等）

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The background depicts a worker casting metal in a foundry's workshop.
    • Virtually all copper alloys can be cast successfully by the centrifugal casting process.
    • Pewter was used to make cheap jewellery and was cast in moulds made from antler, engraved Roman tiles and clay, although stamped pewter jewellery was also made.
    • Brooches were made either by hammering a piece of metal into the right shape or by casting molten metal in a mould.
    • Cast iron is very versatile, as it can be poured into moulds when molten and cast into complicated shapes, but is very brittle.
    • Fondant can also be cast in moulds and allowed to set.
    • Steel can be cast into bars, strips, sheets, nails, spikes, wire, rods or pipes as needed by the end user.
    • A variety of materials such as stone, metal, and sandy clays have been used to form the mould in which metal is cast.
    • It casts molten silicon in moulds, just as metal components are cast.
    • He stared into space as his teacher explained the principles of casting metal into various shapes.
    • It was also popular as a material for ornamentation, being versatile and easily shaped or cast into different patterns.
    • Back in 1856, he patented a steel-making process for casting strip steel.
    • Aluminum is one of the few metals that can be cast by all of the processes used in casting metals.
    Synonyms
    mould, fashion, form, shape, model
    1. 4.1 Make (a molded object) by pouring metal or other material into a mold while molten.
      浇铸（金属等）
      a bell was cast for the church

      为教堂铸造了一口钟。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • A plaster mold was made when the body parts were to be cast in bronze metal because molten bronze would destroy a rubber mold.
      • He appears to have devised a successful mould for casting regularly sized and spaced metal type, a heavy ink that would adhere to this type, and a variation of a press that would give an impression on paper.
      • Pins, buckles and discs were all being cast, but the moulds were mainly for penannular brooches.
      • The dog, cast in bronze by a local sculptor, was erected in 1932 to commemorate the district's pioneer settlers.
      • The figurine could have been cast from a clay mould made with a bronze fitting of a jug handle or a steelyard weight.
      • Made in the last year of Hanson's life, this was the artist's first sculpture cast in bronze.
      • From these moulds he could then cast waxes to use as the masters for the bronze casting.
      • For nearly a century, the text to be printed was cast in hot metal, using monotype to set single characters or linotype to set text line by line.
      • In those days type was cast in hot metal on Linotype machines and if power was off, the metal went cold.
      • The source for this date is found in a petition for a bell to be cast in the year 840.
      • When cast in bronze, the statue is expected to weigh a tonne.
      • Visitors were also shown vases that were cast from the same material and turned on a wood lathe.
      • Bells can be hollowed from wood or made from glass or ceramics, but most are cast or forged from metal.
      • Later he had his works cast in bronze and sometimes added elements in welded steel.
      • She then has these objects cast in metal to make them permanent.
      • Apart from being very difficult to cast a solid bronze figure without distortion, the weight would be a major problem.
      • Those who could afford it wore medals struck in silver, but the ordinary people purchased medals cast in less expensive metals.
      • The Lord Lieutenant of East Yorkshire, Richard Marriott, travelled down to the foundry where the six bells have been cast to inspect them for himself.
      • Simple shapes such as plates and spoons could be cast in a two-part mould, but complex forms such as tankards or flagons needed multi-part moulds.
      • And it is hoped the bells, which are to be cast in Holland, will be heard for the first time in September on the 150th anniversary of the founding of the village.
    2. 4.2 Arrange and present in a specified form or style.
      安排，表现
      he issued statements cast in tones of reason

      他以理性的口吻发表声明。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • He has been cast in a certain way by his silence because he thought the right thing to do was to work with the police and not come on your show.
      • Behavior can usually be cast in positive or negative terms.
      • Will the resident antipathy towards America in other spheres be cast in the same style?
      • You don't see reporters cast in a good light anymore.
      • First, the rhetoric requires motherhood to be cast in unrealistically negative terms.

  • 5Register (a vote)

    登记（选票），投（票）

    residents turned out in record numbers to cast their votes
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Ballot boxes will be left to gather dust in the June elections, as every vote will be cast by post.
    • On Saturday week, 600,000 young people will cast their first ever vote in a federal election.
    • By lunchtime, across East Timor, four out of five of those who had registered had cast their votes.
    • The poll was run from the council's website and votes could be cast either by computer or a mobile phone.
    • Such activities disenfranchise those who properly register to vote and cast valid ballots.
    • The bill is silent on how votes will be cast, including the possibility of postal ballots.
    • The company needs to gain 75 per cent of the vote that is cast at a general meeting in August.
    • That forces us to consider the votes that were not cast.
    • The votes have been cast and the deadline of May 15 has long passed.
    • A vast number of early votes and absentee votes have been cast.
    • Each person will have their own unique polling number which will give them access to each service, ensuring that fraudulent votes cannot be cast.
    • The 488 voters cast 2,226 votes for 454 different books about Montana.
    • This is the first time that the union has has cast such a vote.
    • Postal votes can be cast any time until and including June 10, providing they are received by 10 pm at the address on the return envelope.
    • A total of 11,417 votes were cast in favour of a strike and 4,316 were cast against.
    • Bolton election staff have started opening postal ballots already cast by voters in the General Election.
    • Reaching the age of eighteen was quite significant for me, as it allowed me the opportunity to cast my first parliamentary vote.
    • Fears that insufficient votes would be cast persisted up until the referendum took place on February 20.
    • It is, of course, utterly presumptuous to declare the race over before a single vote has been cast.
    • The votes have been cast and the winners of the Croydon Champion Art Challenge have been chosen.
    Synonyms
    register, record, enter, file, lodge, post, set down, vote

  • 6Cause (a magic spell) to take effect.

    使（魔咒）生效，施法

    the witch cast a spell on her to turn her into a beast

    巫婆施法，把她变成了野兽。

    figurative the city casts a spell on the visitor

    〈喻〉这座城市把游客迷住了。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Offering these items is a sign of friendliness on the part of those who give them, while accepting or requesting them indicates trust that a spell has not been cast over them.
    • In Corsica it's difficult to decide whether it's the coastline or the interior which casts the strongest spell.
    • If all spells could be cast with just the wave of a hand, only chaos would come from it.
    • Her child, who would be born with the ability to wield magic, would not cast a single spell until certain conditions were met.
    • She then casts a sleep spell on the soldiers, too see what happens next.
    • Helen said that if someone needed a spell she would cast one provided there was a good enough reason.
    • One of these spells, when cast successfully, can pretty well turn the tide of battle.
    • A marriage certificate does not cast a magic spell of protection.
    • He was running low on his magic, but he was determined to cast one more spell.
    • Without adequate meditation, she wouldn't have enough magic energy to cast a spell.
    • An albino displayed in Paris in 1744 at an exhibition cast such a spell over the public that even Voltaire wrote an extensive description of the case.
    • I had tried to cast the very spell I had vowed never to use again on another human.
    • The spell that had been cast over him was gone and she'd been the one to break it.
    • A spell will be cast and he will become a squirrel for the rest of his life.
    • By the time I came to work for Michael and Jan, their eighty acres had cast such a spell on them that they did not feel at ease anywhere else.
    • As depicted in a variety of Chinese-language thrillers, magic spells are cast by drawing special words or symbols on a piece of paper or in the air.
    • But, Laura says, spells must not be cast to do harm.
    • A pint-sized Messiah with scary eyes and an unkempt beard, he throws tantrums rather than casting a spell.
    • I shall cast a magic spell to transport us from the confines of these walls!
    • Inside the ‘wagon’ it lay bare except for some crates of different things used for casting spells.
    Synonyms
    bewitch, enchant

  • 7Calculate and record details of (a horoscope).

    用（星相）占卜

    Example sentencesExamples
    • As Nick himself puts it, if this is how one sees astrology ‘one may just as easily roll a set of astro-dice as go to the bother of casting a horoscope’.
    • By 500BC, evidence of a Zodiac had been found and introduced, and personal horoscopes were being cast.
    • It contains the blank forms/charts and instructions on how to cast your own natal chart.
    • At the end I asked her if I could cast her horoscope.
    • To cast your horoscope, your exact time, place, and date of birth is required.
    Synonyms
    calculate, devise, compute, reckon, determine, assess, work out, formulate, record, write

  • 8no object, usually with adverbial of direction (in country dancing) change one's position by moving a certain number of places in a certain direction along the outside of the line in which one is dancing.

    （乡村舞蹈中的）转向（舞者沿外线移动位置）

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Then the boy and the girl would cast down and circle with the bottom couple.
    • Come back up to where you started and cast round one couple to progress.
    • Bottom couple dance together up the middle of the set, and cast out and down the outside back to places.

  • 9Hunting
    no object (of a dog) search in different directions for a lost scent.

    〔猎〕（狗）四处探寻失踪的嗅迹

    the dog cast furiously for the vanished rabbit

    这条狗疯狂寻找那消失的野兔嗅迹。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Both dogs were casting in front of me when a mountain quail flushed from between my legs.
    • Horses and men were standing all close together, while the hounds were casting for a scent.
    • This gave the Field a chance to catch up while the hounds cast back and picked up the line without help from the Master.
    • He sat up and looked to where the dogs cast for his trail.
    • We have a special field Master, who is giving a commentary to those who are introduced to it to explain to them why the hounds are casting, what they are doing and all the difficulties and so forth.
    • The dogs were casting about, in search of a scent that was not there, obviously distressed.
    1. 9.1 Let loose (hounds) on a scent.
      〔猎〕放开（猎狗）以探寻嗅迹
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Casting the hounds into the cover we stood on the edge of a steep gorge and listened for a sound of the hounds working.
      • If the hounds do not by themselves recover the line, the huntsman will try to assist by ‘em>casting’ the pack in the direction which his experience tells him that the hare may have taken.
      • The huntsman casts the hounds usually with the wind at his back.
      • When the pack loses the scent, the huntsman will cast the hounds again.
      • Red-coated huntsmen drive and cast the dogs into promising spots with whoops and short blasts from a small fox horn.
nounkæstkast

  • 1An object made by shaping molten metal or similar material in a mold.

    铸件，塑件

    bronze casts of the sculpture

    雕塑的青铜铸件。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Maudslay must also have seen the superb casts of European sculptures exhibited in the Architectural Courts of the South Kensington Museum, which had opened in 1873.
    • Sonja Landweer is exhibiting a series of bronze casts taken from ceramic moulds.
    • Greece has promised to make casts of the sculptures for the British Museum and bear all the costs of returning them to Athens.
    • They're everywhere; his signature, their presence captured in Snowdon's great 1988 photograph and in those ubiquitous casts in plaster and bronze.
    • The room has a great light fixture, by Artemide, and truly original artwork in the cast of a broken piano that artist Leesa French found in a rubbish tip.
    • The garden's been maintained as she kept it and is full of her sculptures: from 1958, she kept back artist's casts of many of her bronzes, placing them here.
    • There is no evidence of retouching to the cast, which suggests that the mould was of the highest quality.
    • It has casts of virtually all his sculptural work.
    • Each stage is also designated by a set of realistic casts of figures being born, getting married and so forth.
    • Peer at the piece very closely and you may just make out the traces of what look like scars on the surface of the cellulose paint which coats these two huge bronze casts.
    • However there is more than meets the eye as the sculpture is actually a bronze cast realistically painted.
    • His multi-figure bronze casts portray a breadline, an Appalachian farm couple and a man listening to one of FDR's fireside chats.
    • He once made a bronze cast of his own hand, which he used to grip a sapling.
    • Among the other five pieces here are two compositions that are each shown in two versions - the original assemblage and a bronze cast.
    • A second bronze cast of the statue is at the top of the stairs in the Century Association.
    • The bronze depicted here is one of eight casts created in 1955.
    • The rooms I like best are the ones that contain casts of all sorts of astonishing statues, monuments and sections of famous architecture.
    • After the metal has cooled, the mould is broken open and the solid cast is now ready for use.
    • Previously, like Rodin and his followers, Brancusi had modelled his sculptures in clay or plaster and then made bronze casts.
    1. 1.1 A mold used to make an object by casting.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The models began life sculpted in clay, before a plaster cast was used to mould the final version in glass fibre, with the knight and the totem pole finished to look like bronze, the helmet in iron.
      • When a metal enters a cast, it may appear to flow uniformly.
      • When Elgin first went to Athens, his intention was simply to make a plaster cast of the sculptures.
      • Model eggs were made of plaster-of-Paris from casts of real cowbird eggs and painted with acrylic paints and polyurethane to mimic real cowbird eggs.
      • The break turned out to be fairly minor, as these things go, and since the bone was in a stabilised position, I didn't even need a cast.
      • The casts were then cut open and used as templates; the assemblages of welded rods are three-dimensional sketches of individuals in zigzags of bright white metal.
      • Foundry staff, working on the new York Minster bells, pour molten metal into an underground cast.
      • These sheets are fed into large presses with casts shaped into a particular body panel, like a door, bonnet roof and bodies.
      • Molten metal flows in a white-hot stream into the giant cast for one of York Minster's six new bells.
      • It is such a gratifying and easy task to chat about life and times using literary works as a basis, just as it is more gratifying and easier to copy from a plaster cast than to draw a living body.
      Synonyms
      mould, die, form, matrix, shape, casting, template, pattern, frame
    2. 1.2 A bandage stiffened with plaster of Paris, molded to the shape of a limb that is broken, and used to support and protect it.
      （支撑或保护断肢的）石膏绷带
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Not all skiing accidents can be mended with a plaster cast or bandage.
      • We got him out of the plaster cast and he's been able to move his wrist freely at a very early stage.
      • He has had the cast removed from his broken arm and is now working on building up the muscle and on his overall conditioning.
      • Orthopedic technologists traditionally remove casts and prepare types of traction.
      • I had just finished applying a cast to her fractured wrist.
      • The guy had one arm in a plaster cast and he's lucky it's not two now.
      • At this point I noticed that the girl, who was about 18 years old, had her left leg in a cast from above the thigh to the bottom of her foot.
      • Why aren't some types of broken bones put in casts right away?
      • Some members of this profession specialize in a narrow range of conditions, for example, bonesetters, who make casts and medicines for broken limbs.
      • Joshua, who is encased from hip to neck in a plaster cast to protect his weak bones, had a huge smile on his face throughout
      • He fractured four bones in his wrist and will wear a cast for three months before beginning physical therapy.
      • Every six weeks she had to go to hospital and have the casts changed under general anaesthetic to accommodate her growing frame.
      • The girl was totally wrapped in casts and bandages.
      • He then saw a doctor, had his old plaster cast removed, had his leg re-plastered, had another x-ray and finally saw the doctor again, who checked the x-rays and told him he could go home - all of this in just under two hours.
      • They put a plaster cast on my foot, right up to my knee.
      • In fact, he was so desperate to get back on to his bike that we had to tell the doctor a little lie to persuade him to remove the plaster cast.
      • Mom was lying in her bed, arm in a cast, and bandage on her forehead.
      • Just out of his body cast and into a metal brace, Patchen still lacked mobility and so began to look around for a house nearby.
      • After checking the x-rays, Rachael can see the wrist is broken and Sammy will need a plaster cast fitted.
      • I am having the plaster cast removed at the end of the week so I will be okay.

  • 2An act of throwing something forcefully.

    猛扔，掷，投，抛

    he grabbed a spear for a third cast

    他抓住标枪，做第三次投掷。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • His arm goes back for a mighty cast of the lance.
    1. 2.1Fishing A throw of a fishing line.
      〔渔〕抛钓丝
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In the next four casts, I had four more pike averaging some six pounds.
      • After a few hopeful short casts, I punched out as far as possible, to the deeper channel, about twenty yards off the sandbar.
      • After about ten casts Alf caught a trout and was delighted.
      • On the third cast, I could see a wake behind the fly, but ran out of water before the fish would take.
      • First cast, the fly landed lightly, then drifted downstream for about three yards.
    2. 2.2archaic At dice, a throw or a number thrown.
      〈古〉掷骰子；掷骰的点数
      Example sentencesExamples
      • His own fault he hides, as a cheat hides an unlucky cast of the die.
      • When they have lost all their money they will play for their houses, their land, and their wives even, whose destiny often depends on a cast of the dice.
      • Players use the dice to score points without losing all their chips but a single strategic play of a card or lucky cast of the dice can turn the game around.
      Synonyms
      throw, toss, fling, pitch, hurl, shy, lob, flip

  • 3in singular, with adjective or noun modifier The form or appearance of something, especially someone's features or complexion.

    形状；外观，外貌

    she had a somewhat masculine cast of countenance

    她的面容有些男相。

    the colors he wore emphasized the olive cast of his skin

    他穿的衣服颜色突出了他橄榄色的皮肤。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Most of the other, longer-wavelength colors of the Sun pass directly through the air, giving the Sun a yellowish cast.
    • He had been picked for the Western cast of his features and his ability to follow orders.
    • He was eerily calm all of a sudden, but had a sinister cast to his features as he smirked.
    • He has a Slavic cast of feature, which he acknowledges helps him to adopt a cloak of invisibility.
    • She paused to look at him, and noticed something strange, an odd cast to his features.
    • The leaves often take on a bronze cast, making this plant all the more interesting.
    1. 3.1 The character of something.
      特性，特点
      this question is for minds of a more philosophical cast than mine

      这个问题适合那些比我更具哲学头脑的人。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • This leads to a confusion about the philosophical cast of mind of most people who vote Democrat.
      • Only die-hards or those of a philosophical cast of mind fail to see the futility of that.
      • Needless to say, this puts a substantially different cast on things.
      • While much of the information Patterson covers is not new ground, there is a decidedly different cast to her research.
      • It is most satisfying to the scientific cast of mind to suppose that a rule which is confirmed whenever it is tested will apply generally in all cases in which the relevant conditions are met.
      • His voice took on a low and serious cast.
      Synonyms
      type, sort, kind, variety, class, style, stamp, nature, manner, pattern, grain, mould, ilk, kidney, strain, brand, genre

  • 4A slight squint.

    轻度斜视

    he had a cast in one eye

    他一只眼睛轻度斜视。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He wore glasses to correct a slight cast and would never use one word where a novel would do.
    • She was short, with heavy thighs, bad legs, and a cast in one eye.
    • The man spoke with a slushy, unfamiliar accent; his nose was splayed to the left and he had a cast in his right eye.
    Synonyms
    squint, cross-eyes

  • 5A convoluted mass of earth or sand ejected onto the surface by a burrowing worm.

    （钻洞的蠕虫排放到表面的）泥土堆，沙堆

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This is the yellow-faced blenny, often found in old tubeworm casts and even discarded shells.
    • The removal of a cast leaves the channel open to direct water infiltration and might expose the worm to direct sunlight.
    • There is one exception to this behaviour, and that is the specialised hermit crab Parugrita, which uses a crack in the reef or a discarded tubeworm cast as a home.
    • The bacterial population of a cast is much greater than the bacterial population of either ingested soil, or the earthworm's gut.
    1. 5.1 A pellet regurgitated by a hawk or owl.
      （鹰或猫头鹰的）颗粒状呕吐物

  • 6Hunting
    A search made by a hound or pack of hounds over a wide area to find a trail.

    （猎狗）探寻嗅迹

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is always great impertinence in a huntsman to pretend to make a cast himself, before the hounds have made theirs.

Phrases

  • be cast in a — mold

    • (of a person) be of the type specified.

      为某种类型

      he was cast in a cautious mold

      他生性谨慎。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Our thinking throughout the Session of 1943 was cast in a serious mold, and the legislation it developed was geared to enabling the State of California and its people to make an outstanding contribution to victory and peace.
      • In this respect, he was cast in a similar mould to Leonardo da Vinci.
      • An adamantine character cast in a republican mold helped anchor his pedestal in the national pantheon.
      • His arrest and deportation in 1907 was his first baptism in fire from which he emerged a high-minded statesman cast in a heroic mould.
      • Hartson, cast in much the same mould as Hughes, put Wales on their way in Helsinki with the opener before Spurs' Simon Davies sealed victory 18 minutes from time.
      • He might have been cast in the mould of Baudelaire and Mallarmé, but it was Jean-Jacques Rousseau who was Finlay's real leading light.
      • On issues of economic and social policy he was, as an American diplomat put it, ‘cast in an Edwardian mould’.
      • His philosophy, his syntax, his lifestyle are all cast in a Biblical mold.
      • From cradle to grave one is cast in the mould of fascismo and there can be no escape.
      • Jenkins provides an extremely expressive treatment to Lil Armstrong's ‘Brown Gal’ with Doc Cheatham's trumpet firmly cast in a Louis Armstrong mold.

  • cast one's eyes over

    • Have a quick appraising look at.

      快速查看

      he was invited to cast his eyes over the exhibition

      他应邀粗略参观一下展览。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • I cast my eyes over the chocolate fabric of my knee-length pencil skirt for creases, finding none, and dipped my gaze to the conservative black of my kitten heels to check for scuff marks, which were also absent.
      • However, having cast their eyes over a video of the incident, the Football Association have now dismissed his appeal.
      • Huddles of people jostled around display boards to cast their eyes over proposals including raising the old railway bridge and building a new footbridge over the canal, allowing boats to travel its length.
      • Representatives from local hockey clubs have been invited to attend to cast their eyes over the eight teams taking part.
      • All the member had to do was cast his eyes over the bill in front of him.
      • The store's turmoil has led to a number of potential buyers casting their eyes over the company.
      • Involuntarily, she stepped in, biting the inside of her cheek apprehensively and casting her eyes over the rows of neatly aligned desks in the room.
      • That would give the administrators time to cast their eyes over the offers before Saturday, when it will finally be decided whether the club can be saved.
      • Investors who may be keen on some exposure to the retail sector should perhaps cast their eyes over grocers, which are generally fairly resilient to economic downturns.
      • We knew we were in for a treat as soon as we cast our eyes over the bar menu.

  • cast one's mind back

    • Think back to a particular event or time.

      回顾，回忆

      he cast his mind back to the fatal evening

      他回忆起那不幸的傍晚。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Naturally enough, such an important date made me cast my mind back in an attempt to remember the moment I received my A-level results, some twelve years ago.
      • I am sure that if the letter writer casts their mind back to their teenage years, they did not become a devil at 13 and an angel at 19.
      • There would have been people out and about in the seafront area on the night he was attacked and we are asking people to cast their mind back to Friday, September 17 and try and remember if they saw John.
      • I should have cast my mind back to the months I spent travelling around Turkey.
      • I cast my mind back to that roomful of smart, polished people of position, all radiating effortless composure and calm confidence, walking around, smiling and nodding at each other.
      • I was casting my mind back to that day when I wrote 4,000 words plus, at the end of which my brain had turned to sludge.
      • If you think you are feeling the pinch of the cold January breeze this year, then take heart and cast your mind back to York winters past.
      • Maeve casts her mind back to the night Frances was crowned the Rose of Sligo and speaks with pride of her youngest daughter.
      • Let's cast our mind back to other people who have been named and shamed - including John Leslie, the Hamiltons and Matthew Kelly - only to find out that they were innocent.
      • Now cast your mind back to February and March of this year when the future of a football club and the hopes and dreams of thousands of fans hung in the balance.

Phrasal Verbs

  • cast about (or around or round)

    • Search far and wide (physically or mentally)

      四处寻找；反复思索

      he is restlessly casting about for novelties

      他为了求新而不停思索。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • The American obsession with dieting dates back to 1961, when a housewife who was seriously obese began casting around for diets.
      • I know it is completely unrealistic, because formally I am not searching, I cast about with my eyes.
      • While I've been casting around for reasons to undergo blood transfusions, my father took the time to become genuinely ill.
      • A biographer in search of a subject must usually cast about among people who have achieved something.
      • And, if one casts around the world today, one notices the two powers with the worst prospects are the ones most advanced in their post-religiosity.
      • When the town casts around for someone to blame Vernon is the best available candidate.
      • Following the phenomenal success of both The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, writer/director Stephen Sommers was casting around for a change of pace.
      • He casts around for an answer but they would all have to start with ‘I am ‘and he just can't do it.
      • He champions what looks suspiciously like a lost cause, courts clubs who have no sympathy for his plight and casts about for players who don't exist.
      • This is an exciting prospect for someone who's casting around for something to do when her contract's up.

  • be cast away

    • Be stranded after a shipwreck.

      （船失事后）搁浅

      Example sentencesExamples
      • While heading home to England, he is cast away on an island, which its geographical proximity to the Americas closely resembles the one in Crusoe.
      • Every year a school class picked at random will be cast away on an abandoned island to fight it out amongst themselves.
      • Guests on the programme select the luxury item they would need to make their lives a little easier if they were cast away.
      • Sometimes, like in a scene on the Cayman Islands when he meets an old man who has been cast away, it seems as if he might spare a paragraph or two for an emotional response.
      • John was cast away on the island of Patmos.
      • She plays a spoiled rich wife cast away on a desert island with her hunk of a servant, and they seem to smack each other around a lot.
      • Already trapped in Fenno-arevo was a small party of slave traders who had also had the misfortune to be cast away on Madagascar's inhospitable south coast after an encounter with pirates.
      • Cast away once, onto the desert island, he finds himself cast away again, by his former love.
      • If you are going to be cast away, Robinson Crusoe island is a good place to be.
      Synonyms
      shipwreck, wreck

  • be cast down

    • Feel depressed.

      沮丧

      she was greatly cast down by abusive criticism of her novels

      她因其小说遭到恶毒批评而极为沮丧。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Far from being cast down by the goal, England concentrated on reaching half-time without falling further behind before switching to the attack with renewed vigour.
      • Take advantage of opportunities, don't be cast down, but rise to the challenge if it does occur
      • I was either cast down and disappointed, or raised up and elated, depending on whether I was feeling better or worse.
      • After a brief fillip Wall Street went into retreat, cast down by sombre corporate trading news from a range of companies.
      • Revived by American aid and by its own exertions, western Germany was more transformed by post-war economic and psychological recovery than it had been cast down by military defeat.
      • After the birth of Ross, both were cast down and depressed.
      • The joyful ones also tend to draw more friends, who would rather bathe in the sunshine of happiness than to be cast down into a gloomy depression.
      • This doesn't mean I was a bully, it was just that people couldn't get me down the way other teens would be cast down.
      • They were a group of men who were very distressed, very cast down by their illness and its difficulties.
      Synonyms
      depressed, downcast, unhappy, sad, miserable, gloomy, down, low, blue, melancholy, doleful, mournful

  • cast off (or cast something off)

    • 1Knitting
      Take the stitches off the needle by looping each over the next to finish the edge.

      〔编织〕收针

      Example sentencesExamples
      • It's a bit nerve-wracking, because you can really see the frill until after the neck edge is cast off.
      • It was just an experiment piece - where I tried to remember how to knit, purl, cast off, increase and decrease etc.
      • Somewhere over the Atlantic on Thursday night, I cast off the last stitch.
      • Or perhaps a hand-knitted sweater that looks like granny just cast it off her knitting needles for her favourite grandson?
      • Sleeves - why does the pattern tell me to mark the rows and then knit 4 or 5 more rows before casting off?
      • It does feel good to cast off that last stitch and know that there's only a few ends to weave in.
      • If I were to do it again, I think that I would rework the button band so that I picked up and knitted 5 rows before casting off.

    • 2Set a boat or ship free from its moorings.

      解缆放船

      the boatmen cast off and rowed downriver

      船夫解开缆绳，向下游划去。

      Jack cast off our moorings

      杰克解开我们的系缆。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Prehistoric seafarers casting off from their home islands to settle elsewhere would have been sure to take along breadfruit trees, which provide an abundance of fruit.
      • Joined by ABBM Peter Horne, POMT Chris Shred and CPL Bert Lancaster he cast off and headed to a spot six nautical miles north-north-west of Thursday Island.
      • After trimming the boat, we cast off, Len taking his preferred spot up front, where he can enjoy the rhythm of paddling without the worry of steering.
      • By the time that safety was reached Fitz had picked up the shivering victim, cast off the mooring lines and was motoring out of the marina.
      • No person shall launch or beach a boat or weigh anchor or cast off when the Department has by posting an order prohibiting the same.
      • He cranked the engine, cast off the bow and stern lines, and moved quickly out of the harbor.
      • Unfortunately they forgot to cast off the mooring line.
      • Ropes were cast off and stevedores moved in with bargepoles to keep the hull clear of the wharf.
      • As the last lines were cast off the ship edged away from the wharf.
      • The ship gave a sudden lurch as the lines were cast off, and began sliding away from the dock in such a way that it seemed the dock itself was receding from them.
      • On August 2, 2003 we cast off from the port of Narssaq, southern Greenland.
      1. 2.1(of a boat or ship) be set free from its moorings.
        解缆放船
        the ferry cast off and made a beeline for the pier
        Example sentencesExamples
        • Just under an hour later Ironheart cast off from its moorings and slipped out into the current.
        • He had come to this conclusion about five minutes into his journey, just after the ship had cast off from the dock.
        • Then the MV Pharos cast off, sailing away from the pier for the last time, with the piper playing on deck.
        • Some require riverboats to cast off from shore before gaming can begin.
        • Jarrod and Nicola were just some of the hundreds of RAN men and women who shared some tearful minutes on the wharf before the warship cast off.
        • They aimed to beach her, but the inrush of water was too great and the tugs had to cast off as she sank to the sandy bottom at 10.30 pm.
        • The amphibious transport, with 260 sailors and soldiers on board, cast off from the Oil Wharf on May 12.
        • At the otherwise silent hotel, I am woken at 6.30 am by the screech of gulls as the mackerel boats cast off from the harbour and head out on the early-morning tide.
        • It's anchors away as the Fleetwood to Knott End ferry service casts off for its yearly service across the Wyre estuary.

    • 3Let loose a hunting hound or hawk.

      放开猎狗（或猎鹰）

    • 4Printing
      Estimate the space that will be taken in print by manuscript copy.

      〔印刷〕（根据原稿件）估计版面篇幅

      Example sentencesExamples
      • The master printer would decide whether the text would be set into type by a single compositor or by a number working simultaneously, in which case the copy would have to be cast off.

  • cast someone off

    • Exclude someone from a relationship.

      与某人绝交

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Mr Peggotty sets out to find her, following her through many countries, and finally recovering her after she has been cast off by Steerforth.
      • His mother cast him off because he did not meet her expectations.
      • Do not cast me off, do not forsake me, O God of my salvation!
      • If he was so foolish as to cast you off, he doesn't deserve you anyway.
      • His lover makes him wear a long blonde wig, and cruelly casts him off when he's dressed as a man.
      • We haven't heard the last of him, and I can't see how Byers can cast him off now.
      • She used him to get what she wanted and then cast him off.
      • He is eventually ordered to leave her to follow his destiny of founding a new Troy, whereupon he casts her off with tragic consequences.
      • Holt lived, and knew pleasure, because his father had cast him off.
      • Do you plan to just cast me off when you're finished like all the others?

  • cast on (or cast something on)

    • Make the first row of a specified number of loops on the needle.

      〔编织〕起针

      cast on and knit a few rows of stockinette stitch

      起针，织几行长袜针脚。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Using 2 needles, cast on 98(110:134:146:158:170) stitches.
      • Julie cast on in record time, and should be knitting fair isles in no time.
      • Cast on 52 stitches at end of next row to complete armhole shaping.
      • I'm doing the socks on 6 ply yarns so I only have to follow the pattern and cast on 64 stitches.

  • cast something up

    • 1(of the sea) deposit something on the shore.

      （大海）在岸上沉淀某物，把…冲上岸

      Example sentencesExamples
      • There is a sense that the coral looked better where it used to be, either living or cast up as a skeleton on a coral beach somewhere.
      • December storms had beaten her to and fro and at last the sea had cast her up onto the shingle.
      • But gourd seeds would not germinate if cast up on a beach; human intervention would be required.
      • One evening, sitting on an upturned boat cast up by the tide, I watched four old women shout derision at a carful of expensive-looking twenty-somethings.

    • 2Add up figures.

      〈旧〉把数字加起来

      Example sentencesExamples
      • I now began to cast up my accounts.

  • cast aside

    • Discard or reject.

      they cast aside the principles of their youth
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He casts aside previous thinking too casually, leaving readers who are unfamiliar with what has been written on the subject with a misleading impression.
      • Although it has cast aside its membership requirements, the club still has a strict dress code.
      • As Americans crowded into the divorce courts, they were casting aside the complex - and demanding - vision of the Founders.
      • Bad policy is bad policy, and should be cast aside like leftover picnic mayonnaise.
      • But other conservatives are crying foul, saying that the law casts aside their federalist principles.
      • I laugh at the bees as I snap their pictures, finally casting aside a life-long fear of them to look at their fat bodies dusted in pollen.
      • At least we wouldn't be casting aside international law and ‘going it alone.’
      • Are Security Council resolutions to be honored and enforced or cast aside without consequence?
      • Should I cast the To Do list aside and just enjoy myself today?
      • But all doubts were cast aside when she saw him there in his jeans and t-shirt waiting for her.

Origin

Middle English: from Old Norse kasta ‘to cast or throw’.

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nounkæstkast

  • The actors taking part in a play, film, or other production.

    （戏剧、电影等的）一组演员

    he draws sensitive performances from his inexperienced cast

    他使麾下稚嫩的演员有了细腻的表演。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Based on the Robin Hood tale, this show features a cast of 15 young performers aged from 12-16 years.
    • The film doesn't take itself too seriously, but draws on raw emotion and features a talented ensemble cast.
    • The supporting cast each had moments to shine as well.
    • To be fair to the director and cast, the film achieves some of its stated goals.
    • Most of the cast had their lines memorized, except for Dan, of course.
    • Many of the film's cast are not professional actors but people who live in the conditions portrayed.
    • On the day we wrapped shooting the cast and crew threw a big party, but my mother had no intention of letting me go.
    • In the grand tradition of the Ealing comedies, the film has attracted an all-star cast of character actors.
    • An all-male cast of actors is performing one of Shakespeare's favourite comedies in the middle of a Cotswold village at the weekend.
    • You cannot ignore the star-studded cast, because that is the movie's selling point.
    • It features a cast of 26 people and is one of the biggest festival productions undertaken in recent years.
    • Relatively unknown Canadian actors round out the cast, and you won't find fault with any one of them.
    • As an international co-production, the film also heavily features American actors in the cast.
    • The charismatic young cast handles the material well.
    • There were also notable spurts of strange behaviour and panic from cast and crew while filming.
    • Please come and support the cast of over fifty who has worked hard over the past months to stage this very entertaining Pantomime.
    • The supporting cast is also excellent; I didn't find a false note anywhere.
    • It has one hell of a great cast, wonderful writers and endless material to work with from the media and politics.
    • But, because of the efforts of the crew and every one of those actors in the cast, the film was completed.
    • It has some solid performances, a few laughs and a likable cast of characters.
verbkæstkast
[with object]

  • 1Assign a part in a play, film, or other production to (an actor)

    （戏剧、电影等的）一组演员

    he was cast as the Spanish dancer
    figurative a campaign for good nutrition, in which red meat is cast as the enemy
    Example sentencesExamples
    • More than 20,000 background actors were cast for the films
    • However, he is not a romantic lead and should never have been cast as such.
    • They were cast as self-interested actors desperate for an escape from poverty, happy to embrace whatever the developed world could offer.
    • Actors are cast as versions of themselves and then left to the mercy of different teams of writers and directors.
    • Insiders know that when it comes to casting women in his projects, he insists on taking a very active - some might even say hands-on - role.
    • His complete deception regarding taxes and his grandstanding on the issue of unemployment cast him as little more than an opportunistic liar.
    • So surely the central issue for a film depicting such a charismatic character is casting an appropriate actor in the lead role.
    • While it is no coincidence that she has twice been cast as a doctor, the actress seems far more hesitant in person, with long pauses punctuating her conversation.
    • He will soon be cast as a supporting actor in a film.
    • Was it scary when you realised you were cast as an actress who was called the most beautiful woman in the world?
    • Most of the major roles were cast with actors I already knew and with whom I had acted earlier in my career.
    • She was called back for a second, then a third audition before being cast as an understudy to the lead.
    • He will not play again this season, but it is easy to cast him as a fall guy in a violent business that ice hockey seems to encourage.
    • For the film, Barmak cast non-professional actors from orphanages and refugee camps.
    • Another choice Bergman made was to cast non-professional actors in the leads.
    • Actors are cast as virtual crew members in prerecorded scenarios that astronauts then use when problems arise.
    • He explains that it's neither easy nor cheap to cast talented actors for just a small number of scenes.
    • He was perfectly cast as the slick detective who played as cool as his perfectly tailored suits.
    • An actor can be cast against type and pull out an astounding performance.
    • Each actor has been perfectly cast in an ideal role.
    Synonyms
    choose, select, pick, name, nominate, assign, appoint, assign the part to, give the part to
    1. 1.1 Allocate parts in (a play, film, or other production)
      （戏剧、电影等的）一组演员
      assembling a great baseball team is as tricky as casting a play
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Every part in this production was well cast, and each actor plays his or her role ably.
      • A friend of mine who's casting teenage films in London just shot me in my living room, and we sent it off, and I got the gig.
      • We cast the film at the Shamshatoo refugee camp in Peshawar, on Pakistan's north-western frontier, and at the various markets and schools in the area.
      • The garden is running its own show, and like a theatre production that you have cast, directed and produced, the summer is time to sit back and watch the performance.
      • After he cast the film, we all met at his house for a preliminary discussion, after which he went to Sweden for five days and wrote the script.
      • Chemistry is one of those things that just cannot be planned for when casting a film.
      • Of course, perfect casting helped with every role cast with the right actor.
      • Trying to pick people who are not actors now but are going to be actors is a lot different from casting a play or a movie.
      • In casting the film, efforts were made to include the people who would be directly concerned in the event of a real-life outbreak or who at least worked in a related field.
      • When you were casting the film, what qualities were you looking for in the lead character?
      • Directors take into account the public's perception of actors and actresses when casting for films.
      • The characters have been well cast and the actors attack the roles with gusto.
      • When Auerbach was casting the film, she was very aware that the actors had to be plausible together as mother and son.
      • So there was no ego involved in plotting this film, casting this film, directing, editing - the only thing that mattered was the movie.
      • The children were asked to cast a play using their classmates as the actors.
      • ‘Once we cast the film, we spent a lot of time with the actors,’ he explains.
      • Cars drive on to the beach and disappear towards the russet-coloured cliffs; a hardy soul casts a line.
      • Wednesday, April 28 everybody is pretend casting the movie based on Richard Clarke's book.
      • The producer works with the writer, casts the film, and supervises the editing.
      • The same casting directors were casting those films.

Origin

Mid 17th century: a special use of cast in cast (sense 4 of the verb).

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