cast lots 的 4 个定义
- one of a set of objects, as straws or pebbles, drawn or thrown from a container to decide a question or choice by chance.
- the casting or drawing of such objects as a method of deciding something: to choose a person by lot.
- the decision or choice made by such a method.
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lot·ted, lot·ting.
- to divide or distribute by lot: to lot furniture for sale; to lot out apples by the basketful.
- to assign to one as his or her lot; allot.
- to divide into lots, as land.
- Obsolete. to cast or draw lots for.
lot·ted, lot·ting.
- to draw lots.
- Often lots. a great deal; greatly: Thanks a lot for the ride. I care lots about my family.
cast lots 近义词
draw lots
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- There will undoubtedly be lots of changes, but as of press time, here’s a glimpse at some of the cinematic delights waiting for LGBTQ audiences.
- So both of these companies may lose a lot of their overseas exposure.
- I think this year has been unprecedented in a lot of ways, and when things are very different than what they have been, people are fearful.
- If you’ve got a lot of that going for you, then striking oil can be a blessing.
- “It helped me a lot having to run for a while,” Davies said.
- I think a lot of it has to do with the attitude and the energy behind it and the honesty.
- There was a lot of positive feedback from people interested in non-gender binary people.
- If anything the work the two cops and the maintenance guy were doing deserves more respect and probably helped a lot more people.
- A lot of people ring in the New Year with vows to lose weight and exercise.
- And extortion makes a lot more sense before a story hits the news wire, not after.
- If the "Y" Beach lot press their advantage they may cut off the enemy troops on the toe of the Peninsula.
- In the old world, poverty seemed, and poverty was, the natural and inevitable lot of the greater portion of mankind.
- Seen thus poverty became rather a blessing than a curse, or at least a dispensation prescribing the proper lot of man.
- Then the enemy's howitzers and field guns had it all their own way, forcing attack to yield a lot of ground.
- I have seen a lot of Bolshevik propaganda and it is not very convincing stuff.