cast about for

基本解釋

I also cast about for some means of warning him.
我也想尋找些方法來警告他。
Thereupon, loads of guys who named themselves "scientists", cast about for the proofs by the coincidences in the labs, and then announce varies canards seriously by which they earn living.
于是一些極其自詡聰明的人類號稱是科學家，靠著實驗室里的巧合來尋找根據(jù)，依靠嚴肅地散布或大或小的謠言來騙吃騙喝。
Faced with the possibility of a lawsuit, bureaucrats at the state public health division have cast about for a semantic escape hatch , eventually settling on the phrase “physician-assisted death”.
由于有面臨起訴的可能，所以州衛(wèi)生部的官員找到了其它的安全詞匯，最后他們決定起用“醫(yī)師輔助死亡”(physician-assisted death) 這個說法。

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