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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I snatched up book and parchment, and was about to cast them into the fire, when the door opened and my uncle entered.
-- It had been formed by one of those torrents of stones cast up by the eruptions, and of which the Icelandic name is stina.
-- Huge stones were caught up, cast into the air, and thrown about as during an eruption.
-- But for the precaution and knowledge of our guide, our dislocated bodies, our crushed and broken limbs, would have been cast to the wind, like dust from some unknown meteor.
-- At last, when I thought myself at my last gasp, about eleven at night, it being in that region quite dark, we reached the summit of Mount Sneffels!It was in an awful mood of mind, that despite my fatigue, before I descended into the crater which was to shelter us for the night, I paused to behold the sun rise at midnight on the very day of its lowest declension, and enjoyed the spectacle of its ghastly pale rays cast upon the isle which lay sleeping at our feet!
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sobs, snuffles, a fist taken from a blubbered face, and ablack shrewd eye cast for a second on the sixpence.
-- Wait, he will want to get rid of you at last, to cast you out.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why, if it had been a smothering instead of a wedding,' Mrs Flintwinch cast about in her mind with great pains for this form of expression, 'I couldn't have said a word upon it, against them two clever ones.'
-- It was too early for her brother; to have seen him once, was to have seen enough of him to know that he would be sluggish to leave whatever frowsy bed he occupied at night; so, as Arthur Clennam walked up and down, waiting for the gate to open, he cast about in his mind for future rather than for present means of pursuing his discoveries.
-- He had no intention of presenting himself in his mother's dismal room that night, and could not have felt more depressed and cast away if he had been in a wilderness.
-- Don't be cast down.'
-- With his hat thrown back upon his ears as if his wiry prongs of hair had darted up like springs and cast it off, with his jet-black beads of eyes inquisitively sharp, with the fingers of his right hand in his mouth that he might bite the nails, and with the fingers of his left hand in reserve in his pocket for another course, Mr Pancks cast his shadow through the glass upon the books and papers.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had cherished her anger till it grew strong and took possession of her, as evil thoughts and feelings al-ways do unless cast out at once.
-- The reader suddenly sat up, cast away the paper, dis-playing a flushed countenance, and with a funny mixture of solemnity and excitement replied in a loud voice, 'Your sister.'
-- Even you cast me off over there, and I felt just ready to go to the deuce,' he began apologeti-cally.
-- John Brooke', whereat she groaned tragically and cast it into the fire, feeling that Laurie's prank had has-tened the evil day for her.
-- Other models failing her for a time, she undertook to cast her own pretty foot, and the family were one day alarmed by an unearthly bumping and screaming and running to the rescue, found the young en-thusiast hopping wildly about the shed with her foot held fast in a pan full of plaster, which had hardened with unex-pected rapidity.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Halting for an instant at the foot of the ladder, and with both hands grasping the ornamental knobs of the man-ropes, Father Mapple cast a look upwards, and then with a truly sailor-like but still reverential dexterity, hand over hand, mounted the steps as if ascending the main-top of his vessel.
-- For when Jonah, not yet supplicating God for mercy, since he but too well knew the darkness of his deserts, when wretched Jonah cries out to them to take him and cast him forth into the sea, for he knew that for his sake this great tempest was upon them; they mercifully turn from him, and seek by other means to save the ship.
-- Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore?
-- Whether he ever thought of it at all, might be a question; but, if he ever did chance to cast his mind that way after a comfortable dinner, no doubt, like a good sailor, he took it to be a sort of call of the watch to tumble aloft, and bestir themselves there, about something which he would find out when he obeyed the order, and not sooner.
-- His whole high, broad form, seemed made of solid bronze, and shaped in an unalterable mould, like Cellini's cast Perseus.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The boys polished them with their spoons till they shone again; and when they had performed this operation (which never took very long, the spoons being nearly as large as the bowls), they would sit staring at the copper, with such eager eyes, as if they could have devoured the very bricks of which it was composed; employing themselves, meanwhile, in sucking their fingers most assiduously, with the view of catching up any stray splashes of gruel that might have been cast thereon.
-- A council was held; lots were cast who should walk up to the master after supper that evening, and ask for more; and it fell to Oliver Twist.
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