recast

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 rē-käst'

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act or process of recasting.
  2. An utterance translated into another grammatical form.
    — Adults may use recasts to suggest corrections to mistakes in children's speech.
动词 v.
  1. To cast or throw again.
    — the Roman gentlemen armed at all assayes, in the middest of their running-race, would cast and recast themselves from one to another horse.
  2. To mould again.
    — The whole bell had to be recast although it had only one tiny, hardly visible crack.
  3. To reproduce in a new form.
    — Our conception of the world rises in us as our intellect recasts [translating umgiesst] the impressions it receives from without into the forms of time, space, and causality.
  4. To assign (roles in a play or performance) to different actors. transitive
    — According to As the World Turns producer, Michael Laibson, the decision was made to recast the role, because the producers and writers felt it would annoy the audience to have Betsy discontinued so soon after her long-delayed marriage […]
  5. To assign (actors) to different roles. transitive
    — She was recast as the villain.

词形变化

recasts present,singular,third-person recasting participle,present recast participle,past recast past recasted common,error-unknown-tag,participle,past,proscribed recasted common,error-unknown-tag,past,proscribed,sometimes recasts plural

词汇关系

衍生词
recastable recaster

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
Proto-Germanic *kas-
Proto-Germanic *kastōną
Old Norse kastabor.
Middle English casten
English cast
English recast
From re- + cast.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
Proto-Germanic *kas-
Proto-Germanic *kastōną
Old Norse kastabor.
Middle English casten
English cast
English recast
From re- + cast.
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