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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is available, would be an ornament to any an- thropological museum.
-- Our visitor readjusted his glasses and began: 'The recent sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville, whose name has been mentioned as the probable Liberal candi-date for Mid-Devon at the next election, has cast a gloom over the county.
-- We must cast round for another scent.'
-- Holmes cast a swift glance of triumph at me.
-- Some-where there, on that desolate plain, was lurking this fiendish man, hiding in a burrow like a wild beast, his heart full of malignancy against the whole race which had cast him out.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was the first to cast her into ignominy; but when they all heard that Marie had returned to the village, they ran out to see her and crowded into the little cottage old men, children, women, girls such a hurrying, stamping, greedy crowd.
-- But, of late, Totski had observed many strange and origi-nal features and characteristics in Nastasia, which he had neither known nor reckoned upon in former times, and some of these fascinated him, even now, in spite of the fact that all his old calculations with regard to her were long ago cast to the winds.
-- The boxer alone was perfectly calm; he twisted his moustaches with affected dignity, and if his eyes were cast down it was certainly not in confusion, but rather in noble modesty, as if he did not wish to be insolent in his triumph.
-- Gratified vanity was visible in the glances he cast upon the assembled company.
-- This was shown chiefly in the look of fear and hatred which he cast upon the assembled company, and in the wild smile upon his trembling lips.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the son of Atreus bade the people purify them-selves; so they purified themselves and cast their filth into the sea.
-- When they had come inside the harbour they furled the sails and laid them in the ship's hold; they slackened the forestays, lowered the mast into its place, and rowed the ship to the place where they would have her lie; there they cast out their mooring-stones and made fast the hawsers.
-- Hector and Ulysses measured the ground, and cast lots from a helmet of bronze to see which should take aim first.
-- Then Achilles took his seat facing Ulysses against the oppo-site wall, and bade his comrade Patroclus offer sacrifice to the gods; so he cast the offerings into the fire, and they laid their hands upon the good things that were before them.
-- Menelaus took Ulysses by the hand, and led him out of the press while his squire brought up his chariot, but Ajax rushed furiously on the Trojans and killed Doryclus, a bastard son of Priam; then he wounded Pandocus, Lysandrus, Pyrasus, and Pylartes; as some swollen torrent comes rushing in full flood from the mountains on to the plain, big with the rain of heaven many a dry oak and many a pine does it engulf, and much mud does it bring down and cast into the sea even so did brave Ajax chase the foe furiously over the plain, slaying both men and horses.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- First to arrive was the Satyr, strangely unreal for all that he cast a shadow and tossed the dust with his hoofs.
-- Show us now where his old body lies, the body he cast away because he had no more need of it.'
-- 'Take him,' said I, standing up again and pointing with the whip; 'take him, and carry him out and cast him into the sea.'
-- They took care not to approach the place where they had thrown Montgomery into the water, but instead, carried the four dead Beast People slantingly along the beach for per-haps a hundred yards before they waded out and cast them away.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But also I will always remember that I have been cast out of the Pack.'
-- 'And that thou mayest be cast out of another pack.
-- 'It is in my head that, if bullets mean anything, they would cast thee out.'
-- 'They have cast me out from the Man-Pack, Mother,' shouted Mowgli, 'but I come with the hide of Shere Khan to keep my word.'
-- 'Man-Pack and Wolf-Pack have cast me out,' said Mow-gli.
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