| 词汇 | cast up |
| 释义 | Phr V cast up casts, casting, cast cast up sth or cast sth up if the sea casts something up, it carries that thing onto the beachusually passive + onTheir bodies were cast up on the beach. cast up verb to vomit BARBADOS, 1965cast up sth • cast sth up usually passive especially BrE if the sea casts something up, it brings it to the shore: The body was cast up a few miles down the coast.+on a beautiful shell that had been cast up on the shore■ SIMILAR TO: wash up cast up1. To throw or toss someone or something ashore. A noun or pronoun can be used between "cast" and "up." The choppy waters cast me up, coughing and spluttering on the beach. A child must have lost a toy boat in the ocean because the waves just cast up its wreckage. 2. To calculate something. The morning after another rather indulgent evening, I decided it was high time for me to cast up my accounts. cast someone or something up[for the waves] to bring up and deposit someone or something on the shore. The waves cast the wreckage up, and it was found on the shore. The waves cast up the wreckage of a boat. |
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