Harry cast about for a happy memory.

哈利努力回想，寻找快乐的回忆。

And, above the ruined town, the buzzards splotched the wintry sky with graceful, sinister bodies. Frank cast about in his mind for some mitigating information that would make the ladies feel better.

弗兰克搜索枯肠，想找些缓和的话题，让小姐们感到好过些。

He said no more and smoked his cigar in silence for a while. She cast about for some remark as rude as his but could think of none.

没有说下去，抽着烟沉默了一会儿，思嘉很想找一句无礼的话来回敬，可是怎么也想不出来。

I'm casting about for motive where it's proven difficult to come by.

我试着列动机却很难想到。

Dr Carson is no Herman Cain. Before the 2012 election Republican activists looked at a string of odd-bods and firebrands, casting about for someone, anyone, who thrilled them more than their eventual nominee, Mitt Romney.

Carson医生不是Herman。2012年的选，共和党活动者们聚焦了一串临时工和煽动者，寻找一些人，任何人，能让们比推出最终提名者Mitt Romney更兴奋。

Louis loved music, and besides, he was already casting about for ways of making money after camp was over.

路易斯热爱音乐，此外，已经在心中盘算着等夏令营结束后何找机会赚钱了。

He casts about for what he wants to say.

思索着想要表达的内容。

After cautiously casting about, I made choice of the tallest of a group of Douglas Spruces that were growing close together like a tuft of grass, no one of which seemed likely to fall unless all the rest fell with it.

在小心翼翼地四处寻找后，我选择了一群道格拉斯云杉中最高的一棵，这些云杉像一簇草一样紧密地生长在一起，除所有的草都倒下，否则它们似乎不会倒下。

What was to be done next? I was wondering whether it would do to beat a precipitate retreat. Bimala, also, was doubtless casting about for some way of escape. But it was as awkward to go as to stay!

接下来要做什么？我想知道是否可以阻止仓促撤退。比马拉无疑也在四处寻找逃跑的方法。但是去和留下一样尴尬！

Eugenie had seen in the furtive glance that she cast about the young man's room—that girlish glance which sees all in the twinkling of an eye—the pretty trifles of his dressing-case, his scissors, his razors embossed with gold.

欧也妮在偷偷打量年轻人房间时，那双少女的眼睛在一瞥间看到了一切——的梳妆盒里的小饰品，剪刀，镶嵌着金边的剃须刀。

With that, he looked back, and nodded at this dead plant, and then cast his eyes about him in walking out of the yard, as if he were considering what other pot would go best in its place.

说完，回头看了看那株枯死的植物，然后走出院子时，目光四处打量，仿佛在考虑还有什么别的花盆最适合放在它的位置上。

I dreaded lest the others should come in suddenly and break the spell she had cast about me; but we stood there a while by the corner of the big gable of the house, and no one came.

我害怕人会突然进来打破她对我施下的咒语；但是我们在房子的大山墙的拐角处站了一会儿，没有人来。

And you see this ferrying and giving people casts about the water is my business, which I would do for anybody; so to take gifts in connection with it would look very queer.

你看，这种摆渡和给人们关于水的投射是我的事，我愿意为任何人做；所以接受与它有关的礼物会显得很奇怪。

It's obvious that the Barkids were a highly cosmopolitan and sophisticated group, and they cast about widely for models of leadership and political control that they could use to buttress their authority.

很明显， 巴卡家族是一个常国际化和精明的群体，们广泛寻找可以用来巩固自己权威的领导和政治控制模式。

At last, after casting about for an effective opening, he took a long gulp of tea, cleared his throat, and said: " Looks as if there'd be more snow" .

终于，四处寻找了一个有效的开口，长长地喝了一口茶，清了清嗓子，道：“看来雪还要下起来。”

By the late spring or early summer of 67, Solanus was casting about for a producer, and it was this search that brought her into the orbit of Andy Warhol.

到67年晚春或初夏，索拉纳斯正在寻找制作人，正是这次寻找让她进入了安迪·沃霍尔的圈子。

This is just a magical day because quote outside the sunny afternoon had transformed the snow into dripping shimmering water that cast light about the whole bedroom.

这真是个神奇的日子，因为阳光明媚的午后将雪化作了滴落闪烁的水珠，整个卧室都因此洒满了光芒。

But when I talk to a stranger or someone I don't know very well, I'm always casting about, searching for something to talk about.

但当我跟一个陌生人或不太熟悉的人交谈时，我总是四处寻找可以聊的话题。

So now he was casting about, looking for new ways to put himself back at the centre of things.

因此，现在四处寻找，试图找到新的方法让自己重新回到事物的核心位置。

She cast about frantically for an excuse.

【cast】她拚命地想找借口。