cast是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /v. 投, 掷, 抛; 铸造; 扮演角色，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scrooge bent before the Ghost's rebuke, and trembling cast his eyes upon the ground.
-- The mention of his name cast a dark 66 Sons and Loversshadow on the party, which was not dispelled for full five minutes.
-- And now, without a word of warning from the Ghost, they stood upon a bleak and desert moor, where monstrous masses of rude stone were cast about, as though it were the burial-place of giants; and water spread itself wheresoever it listed, or would have done so, but for the frost that held it prisoner; and nothing grew but moss and furze, and coarse rank grass.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- ' respecting the small property of my poor father, whom I never saw so long dead ' Mr. Lorry moved in his chair, and cast a troubled look to-wards the hospital procession of negro cupids.
-- 'If it was ever intended that I should go across salt water, do you sup-pose Providence would have cast my lot in an island?'
-- Monsieur the Marquis cast his eyes over the submissive faces that drooped before him, as the like of himself had drooped before Monseigneur of the Court only the differ-ence was, that these faces drooped merely to suffer and not to propitiate when a grizzled mender of the roads joined the group.
-- 'But, do not believe,' said Darnay, upon whose ear the mournful voice struck with a reproachful sound, 'that if my fortune were so cast as that, being one day so happy as to make her my wife, I must at any time put any separation between her and you, I could or would breathe a word of what I now say.
-- Upon which, every man looked at his neighbour, and then all cast down their eyes and sat silent.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last he returned to his palace quite cast down, because he wished so much to have a real Princess for his wife.
-- and when Gerda had told her everything, and asked her if she had not seen little Kay, 92 Andersen's Fairy Talesthe woman answered that he had not passed there, but he no doubt would come; and she told her not to be cast down, but taste her cherries, and look at her flowers, which were finer than any in a picture-book, each of which could tell a whole story.
-- She directly observed that the stranger who had just come was quite a different sort of person to all the others; 'He has come here in order to get his beard to grow, they say, but I see the real cause, he cannot cast a shadow.'
-- As the daughter of a king, she needed not to stand upon trifles, so she said, 'Your complaint is, that you cannot cast a shadow?'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, when the thing's done, don't you see, can one possibly cast her off?
-- Everyone with whom the princess had chanced to discuss the matter said the same thing: "Mercy on us, it's high time in our day to cast off all that old-fashioned business.
-- "And the worst of all is, you see, that I can't cast him off: there are the children, I am tied.
-- He did not want to see, and did not see, that many people in society cast dubious glances on his wife, he did not want to understand, and did not understand, why his wife had so particularly insisted on staying at Tsarskoe, where Betsy was staying, and not far from the camp of Vronsky's regiment.
-- In the trembling circles of shadow cast by the leaves, at a table, covered with a white cloth, and set with coffeepot, bread-and-butter, cheese, and cold game, sat the princess in a high cap with lilac ribbons, distributing cups and bread-and-butter.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Fogg and Aouda, who were seated on deck, cast a last glance at the quay, in the hope of espying Passepartout.
-- He felt decidedly repelled from such a vocation, and he imagined perhaps he was mistaken that the fair ones of Salt Lake City cast rather alarming glances on his person.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cone of light cast a gloss on the bright brass tube, a sheen on his black hair, as he bent over the eyepiece.
-- "No!I will not resign!You can cast me out!"
-- The whistle snorted contemptuously; the hawsers were cast off.
-- The more they shouted his glory, the more he thought about what unknown, tight-minded scientists in distant laboratories would say of a man who had had his chance and cast it away.
-- His new Buick sedan awaited him outside, and with modest satisfaction he heard the minister gloat: "The righteous, even the Children of Light, they shall be rewarded with a great reward and their feet shall walk in gladness, saith the Lord of Hosts; but the mockers, the Sons of Belial, they shall be slain betimes and cast down into darkness and failure, and in the busy marts shall they be forgot."
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