| 释义 |
cast something up1(Of the sea) deposit something on the shore: she would collect objects cast up by the tides...- December storms had beaten her to and fro and at last the sea had cast her up onto the shingle.
- There is a sense that the coral looked better where it used to be, either living or cast up as a skeleton on a coral beach somewhere.
- One evening, sitting on an upturned boat cast up by the tide, I watched four old women shout derision at a carful of expensive-looking twenty-somethings.
2 dated Add up figures: he could cast up intricate accounts in his head...- I now began to cast up my accounts.
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