cast about for

基本解释

I also cast about for some means of warning him.
我也想寻找些方法来警告他。
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.
于是一些极其自诩聪明的人类号称是科学家，靠着实验室里的巧合来寻找根据，依靠严肃地散布或大或小的谣言来骗吃骗喝。
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”.
由于有面临起诉的可能，所以州卫生部的官员找到了其它的安全词汇，最后他们决定起用“医师辅助死亡”(physician-assisted death) 这个说法。

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