The form cast is used in the present tense and is the past tense and past participle. cast 的过去式和过去分词与原形相同。
- N-COUNT-COLL (戏剧、电影的)全体演员
The cast of a play or film is all the people who act in it.
- 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.
- 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。 - He was cast as a college professor...
他被安排饰演一个大学教授。 - He had no trouble casting the movie.
他为该部电影挑选演员没费一点力气。
- 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.
- 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。 - 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.
- He cast a stern glance at the two men...
他朝那两个人狠狠地瞪了一眼。 - I cast my eyes down briefly...
我向下瞥了一眼。 - The maid, casting black looks, hurried out.
女仆怒气冲冲地瞪了几眼,匆匆地出去了。
- VERB 抛下,投射(光线或阴影)
If something casts a light or shadow somewhere, it causes it to appear there.
- The moon cast a bright light over the yard...
明亮的月光洒在院子里。 - 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.
- 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.
- 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。 - 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.
- 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。 - 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.
- 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.
- ...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.
- 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。
- 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.
- 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。 - Hers was an essentially sunny cast of mind.
她本质上是属于阳光快乐的性格。
- See also: casting
- to cast anchor → see: anchor