| 单词 | cast a shadow |
| 释义 | > as lemmascast a shadow (on) a. To throw or cause to fall (light, etc.) on or over any object, or in some particular direction. Now chiefly in cast a shadow (on). ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > direct [verb (transitive)] > cause to fall in specific direction casta1400 falla1774 pitch1785 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 10060 Þe grace þat of hir brestis, Ouer all þis world þat grace it kestis. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 9925 It castes lem ouer al sa bright, þat reches to þe dunjon light. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Judith ix. 8 Castinge a thick darcknes before them. 1630 Bp. J. Hall Occas. Medit. §iii The Sunne darkens the full Moone, in casting the shadow of the Earth upon her opposed face. 1630 Bp. J. Hall Occas. Medit. §xxxii He can discerne another man by that light, which is cast before him. 1738 A. Pope One Thousand Seven Hundred & Thirty Eight Dialogue II 8 Or round a Quaker's Beaver cast a Glory. 1752 J. Gill Doctr. Trinity (ed. 2) iii. 72 Though they do not prove the doctrine of the Trinity, yet they cast some light upon it. 1803 T. Campbell Poems 4 Coming events cast their shadows before. 1830 Ld. Tennyson Poems 79 There is no bright form Doth not cast a shade. 1860 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters V. 33 Every shadow which one casts on the next. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §16. 106 A pine-fire was..casting its red light upon the surrounding objects. < as lemmas |
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