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Cast Verb Means 例:The Play People N Count Plaster

单词 cast
音标
英[kɑ:st] 美[kæst]
解释
vt.铸造;投掷;投射;脱落,脱皮;n.铸型;演员表;轻微的斜视;投,掷骰;vi.掷,投;计算,加;
例句

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(戏剧、电影的)全体演员
The cast of a play or film is all the people who act in it.
例:The show is very amusing and the cast are very good.演出妙趣横生,演员的表演也很出彩。

VERB
挑选(演员);使…出演(某角色)
To cast an actor in a play or film means to choose them to act a particular role in it.
例:The world premiere of Harold Pinter's new play casts Ian Holm in the lead role...哈罗德·品特新剧的世界首演由伊恩·霍尔姆担纲主演。
例:He was cast as a college professor...他被安排饰演一个大学教授。

VERB
描述;描写;描绘
To cast someone in a particular way or as a particular thing means to describe them in that way or suggest they are that thing.
例:Democrats have been worried about being cast as the party of the poor...民主党人一直担心被描绘成穷人的政党。
例:Holland would never dare cast himself as a virtuoso pianist.霍兰永远不敢说自己是位钢琴名家。

VERB
瞥;飞快看(一眼);扫视
If you cast your eyes or cast a look in a particular direction, you look quickly in that direction.
例:He cast a stern glance at the two men...他朝那两个人狠狠地瞪了一眼。
例:I cast my eyes down briefly...我向下瞥了一眼。

VERB
抛下,投射(光线或阴影)
If something casts a light or shadow somewhere, it causes it to appear there.
例:The moon cast a bright light over the yard...明亮的月光洒在院子里。
例:They flew in over the beach, casting a huge shadow.它们飞到海滩上空,抛下一大片黑影。

VERB
使产生怀疑;使不确信
To cast doubt on something means to cause people to be unsure about it.
例:Last night a top criminal psychologist cast doubt on the theory.昨天晚上,一位顶级犯罪心理学家使人们对该理论产生了怀疑。

VERB
投(票)
When you cast your vote in an election, you vote.
例:About ninety-five per cent of those who cast their votes approve the new constitution...参加投票的人中有大约95%支持新宪法。
例:Gaviria had been widely expected to obtain well over half the votes cast.人们普遍认为加维里亚能获得远远超过半数的选票。

VERB
扔;抛;投;丢
To cast something or someone somewhere means to throw them there.
例:Any true lover casting a pin into the fountain and gazing into it will see his or her future partner...只要你心诚,往喷泉里扔下一根大头针,然后盯着泉水看,就能看见未来伴侣的影子。
例:John had Maude and her son cast into a dungeon.约翰让人将莫德和她的儿子关进了地牢。

VERB
抛(鱼线);甩(鱼钩)
If someone casts a fishing line or casts, they throw one end of the fishing line into the water.
例:Some way from them, the fisherman cast his line.在离他们稍远的地方,渔夫下了钩。

VERB
(用模具)铸造,浇铸
To cast an object means to make it by pouring a liquid such as hot metal into a specially shaped container and leaving it there until it becomes hard.
例:...sculptures cast in bronze.青铜铸造的雕像

N-COUNT
铸件;模子
A cast is a model that has been made by pouring a liquid such as plaster or hot metal onto something or into something, so that when it hardens it has the same shape as that thing.
例:An orthodontist took a cast of the inside of Billy's mouth.正畸医生从比利的口腔内部取了模型。

N-COUNT
同 plaster cast
A cast is the same as a plaster cast .

N-COUNT
(人的)思维模式,特性
If someone has a particular cast of mind or cast of thought, they have that kind of character or way of thinking of things.
例:The Social Democratic Party was full of people of an academic cast of mind...社会民主党内尽是些学究式思维的人。
例:Hers was an essentially sunny cast of mind.她本质上是属于阳光快乐的性格。
变形
third:casts~done:cast~ing:casting~past:cast~

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