cast up one's accounts

动词 v.
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英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To come to an accounting; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; reckon.
    — He was very careful to cast up his accounts every quarter ; which he did, that he might spend neither more nor less than what he could spend every year.
  2. To vomit. archaic,idiomatic
    — To cast up one's accounts upon excessive drinking ; either, says Cotgrave, because in spewing one makes a noise like a fox that barks, or (from the subject to the effect) because the flaying of so unsavoury a beast will make any one spew.

词形变化

casts up one's accounts present,singular,third-person casting up one's accounts participle,present cast up one's accounts participle,past cast up one's accounts past cast up accounts alternative
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