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。
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the credulous and excited traveler related the hazardous chances of the wil-derness, the blood of the timid curdled with terror, and mothers cast anxious glances even at those children which slumbered within the security of the largest towns.
-- At length the sun set in a flood of glory, behind the distant western hills, and as dark-ness drew its veil around the secluded spot the sounds of preparation diminished; the last light finally disappeared from the log cabin of some officer; the trees cast their deep-er shadows over the mounds and the rippling stream, and a silence soon pervaded the camp, as deep as that which reigned in the vast forest by which it was environed.
-- muttered the white man, on whom the sole control of their future move-ments appeared to devolve; 'it would be time lost to cut their throats, and cast them into the river; and to leave them here would be to tell the Mingoes that they have not far to seek to find their owners!'
-- Duncan cast the wide shawl of Cora before a spectacle he so much loved to contemplate, and then suffered his own head to seek a pillow on the rock.
-- Happily, he soon succeeded in disarming his ad-versary, whose knife fell on the rock at their feet; and from this moment it became a fierce struggle who should cast the other over the dizzy height into a neighboring cavern of the falls.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Over a deep black part of the stream, not far from the church, was formerly thrown a wooden bridge; the road that led to it, and the bridge it-self, were thickly shaded by overhanging trees, which cast a gloom about it, even in the daytime; but occasioned a fear-ful darkness at night.
-- Another convulsive kick in the ribs, and old Gunpowder sprang upon the bridge; he thundered over the resounding planks; he gained the opposite side; and now Ichabod cast a look behind to see if his pursuer should vanish, according to rule, in a flash of fire and brimstone.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rose Waterford cast down her eyes demurely to give greater effect to her reply.
-- It's as though someone had cast a spell over him.
-- Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Towns were overthrown, forests uprooted, coasts devastated by the mountains of water which were precipitated on them, vessels cast on the shore, which the published accounts numbered by hundreds, whole districts leveled by waterspouts which destroyed everything they passed over, several thousand people crushed on land or drowned at sea; such were the traces of its fury, left by this devastating tempest.
-- Perceiving their danger, the passengers cast away the last articles which still weighed down the car, the few provisions they had kept, everything, even to their pocket-knives, and one of them, having hoisted himself on to the circles which united the cords of the net, tried to secure more firmly the lower point of the balloon.
-- While the gaze of the reporter and Neb were cast upon the ocean, the sailor and Herbert looked eagerly for the coast in the west.
-- On attaining it, their first look was cast upon the ocean which not long before they had traversed in such a terrible condition.
-- As long as the waves had not cast up the body of the engineer, as long as he, Neb, had not seen with his eyes, touched with his hands the corpse of his master, he would not believe in his death!And this idea rooted itself deeper than ever in his determined heart.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having performed the serious pantomime that was necessary for the due conveyance of this idea, he cast himself upon his friend's track, and vanished.
-- CHAPTER 9The child, in her confidence with Mrs Quilp, had but feebly described the sadness and sorrow of her thoughts, or the heaviness of the cloud which overhung her home, and cast dark shadows on its hearth.
-- Standing, however, being a tiresome attitude to a gentleman already fatigued with walking, and the dwarf being one of that kind of persons who usually make themselves at home, he soon cast his eyes upon a chair, into which he skipped with uncommon agility, and perching himself on the back with his feet upon the seat, was thus enabled to look on and listen with greater comfort to himself, besides gratifying at the same time that taste for doing something fantastic and monkey-like, which on all occasions had strong possession of him.
-- You don't believe I hope you don't really believe that I deserve to be cast off as I have been; do you, miss?'
-- You mustn't be cast down, Miss Nell.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- ; v. 3._ "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her."
-- There was something so unusual in the expression of her face--something so terrible and piteous in the meaning of her words, in that smile, that quick glance which she cast over the court-room--that the justiciary hung his head, and for a moment there was perfect silence.
-- When the word was given him, he rose slowly, displaying his elegant figure, and, placing both hands on the desk, and slightly bending his head, he cast a glance around the court-room, his eyes avoiding the prisoners.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "There I found a seat of some yellow metal that I did not recognise, corroded in places with a kind of pinkish rust and half smothered in soft moss, the arm-rests cast and filed into the resemblance of griffins' heads.
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