1. (戲劇、電影的)全體演員
    The cast of a play or film is all the people who act in it.

    e.g. The show is very amusing and the cast are very good.
           演出妙趣橫生，演員的表演也很出彩。

2. 挑選(演員);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.

    e.g. The world premiere of Harold Pinter's new play casts Ian Holm in the lead role...
           哈羅德·品特新劇的世界首演由伊恩·霍爾姆擔(dān)綱主演。
    e.g. He was cast as a college professor...
           他被安排飾演一個(gè)大學(xué)教授。

3. 描述;描寫;描繪
    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.

    e.g. Democrats have been worried about being cast as the party of the poor...
           民主黨人一直擔(dān)心被描繪成窮人的政黨。
    e.g. Holland would never dare cast himself as a virtuoso pianist.
           霍蘭永遠(yuǎn)不敢說自己是位鋼琴名家。

4. 瞥；飛快看(一眼);掃視
    If you cast your eyes or cast a look in a particular direction, you look quickly in that direction.

    e.g. He cast a stern glance at the two men...
           他朝那兩個(gè)人狠狠地瞪了一眼。
    e.g. I cast my eyes down briefly...
           我向下瞥了一眼。

5. 拋下，投射(光線或陰影)
    If something casts a light or shadow somewhere, it causes it to appear there.

    e.g. The moon cast a bright light over the yard...
           明亮的月光灑在院子里。
    e.g. They flew in over the beach, casting a huge shadow.
           它們飛到海灘上空，拋下一大片黑影。

6. 使產(chǎn)生懷疑;使不確信
    To cast doubt on something means to cause people to be unsure about it.

    e.g. Last night a top criminal psychologist cast doubt on the theory.
           昨天晚上，一位頂級犯罪心理學(xué)家使人們對該理論產(chǎn)生了懷疑。

7. 投(票)
    When you cast your vote in an election, you vote.

    e.g. About ninety-five per cent of those who cast their votes approve the new constitution...
           參加投票的人中有大約95%支持新憲法。
    e.g. Gaviria had been widely expected to obtain well over half the votes cast.
           人們普遍認(rèn)為加維里亞能獲得遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)超過半數(shù)的選票。

8. 扔;拋;投;丟
    To cast something or someone somewhere means to throw them there.

    e.g. Any true lover casting a pin into the fountain and gazing into it will see his or her future partner...
           只要你心誠，往噴泉里扔下一根大頭針，然后盯著泉水看，就能看見未來伴侶的影子。
    e.g. John had Maude and her son cast into a dungeon.
           約翰讓人將莫德和她的兒子關(guān)進(jìn)了地牢。

9. 拋(魚線);甩(魚鉤)
      If someone casts a fishing line or casts, they throw one end of the fishing line into the water.

      e.g. Some way from them, the fisherman cast his line.
             在離他們稍遠(yuǎn)的地方，漁夫下了鉤。

10. (用模具)鑄造，澆鑄
      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.

cast的反義詞

      e.g. ...sculptures cast in bronze.
             青銅鑄造的雕像

11. 鑄件;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.

      e.g. An orthodontist took a cast of the inside of Billy's mouth.
             正畸醫(yī)生從比利的口腔內(nèi)部取了模型。

12. 同 plaster cast
      A cast is the same as a plaster cast .

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13. (人的)思維模式，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.

cast是什么意思

      e.g. The Social Democratic Party was full of people of an academic cast of mind...
             社會(huì)民主黨內(nèi)盡是些學(xué)究式思維的人。
      e.g. Hers was an essentially sunny cast of mind.
             她本質(zhì)上是屬于陽光快樂的性格。

14. see also: casting

15. to cast anchor -> see anchor
      to cast aspersions -> see aspersions
      the die is cast -> see die
      to cast your mind back -> see mind
      to cast your net wider -> see net
      to cast pearls before swine -> see pearl

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