remainder是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 剩余物， 剩下的； 余数， 余项，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He devoted himself during the remainder of the evening to keeping a most vigilant watch on Mrs. Cruncher, and sullenly holding her in conversation that she might be pre-vented from meditating any petitions to his disadvantage.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One-third of the men in the government, the older men, had been friends of his father's, and had known him in petticoats; another third were his intimate chums, and the remainder were friendly acquaintances.
-- The remainder of the land was still worked on the old system, but these three associated partnerships were the first step to a new organization of the whole, and they completely took up Levin's time.
-- He spent the remainder of the time in the street, incessantly looking at his watch and gazing about him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Fogg was, it is true, twenty-four hours behind his time; but this could not seriously imperil the remainder of his tour.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Andwhenever Mrs. Gummidge was overcome in a similar mannerduring the remainder of our stay (which happened some fewtimes), he always said the same thing in extenuation of thecircumstance, and always with the tenderest commiseration.
-- And he wondered about it, in some broken expressions, severaltimes, in the short remainder of our walk; and only seemed toforget it when the light of fire and candle shone upon us, seatedwarm and merry, at table.
-- I thoughtit my duty to hint at the discomfort my aunt would sustain, fromliving in a continual state of guerilla warfare with Mrs. Crupp; butshe disposed of that objection summarily by declaring, that, on thefirst demonstration of hostilities, she was prepared to astonish Mrs.Crupp for the whole remainder of her natural life.
-- The Doctor gave out that he was not quite well; and remainedalone, for a considerable part of every day, during the remainder ofthe visit.
-- From this document, I learned that Mr. Micawberbeing again arrested, was in a final paroxysm of despair; and thathe begged me to send him his knife and pint pot, by bearer, as theymight prove serviceable during the brief remainder of his existencein jail.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may have been observed by persons who go about the shires with eyes for beauty, that in Englishwoman a classically-formed face is seldom found to be united with a figure of the same pattern, the highly-finished features being generally too large for the remainder of the frame; that a graceful and proportionate figure of eight heads usually goes off into random facial curves.
-- "Well, 'tis an honest deed, and we thank ye for it, Pennyways," said Joseph; to which opinion the remainder of the company subscribed unanimously.
-- Her tone and mien signified beyond mistake that the seed which was to lift the foundation had taken root in the chink: the remainder was a mere question of time and natural changes.
-- "Death's head himself shan't wring it from me, mistress, if I've a mind to keep anything; and I'll always be your friend," replied Liddy, emphatically, at the same time bringing a few more tears into her own eyes, not from any particular necessity, but from an artistic sense of making herself in keeping with the remainder of the picture, which seems to influence women at such times.
-- She sat down, snapped off the small upper twigs, and carried the remainder with her into the road.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was Sylvie's custom to take the cream off the milk destined for the boarders' breakfast for her own, and to boil the remainder for some time, so that madame should not discover this illegal exaction.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had already bought a farm with his money, on which he had designed to pass the remainder of his life; but he be-stowed the whole on his rival, together with the remains of his prize-money to purchase stock, and then himself solic-ited the young woman's father to consent to her marriage with her lover.
-- No one can conceive the anguish I suffered during the remainder of the night, which I spent, cold and wet, in the open air.
-- 'I continued for the remainder of the day in my hovel in a state of utter and stupid despair.
-- Beyond Cologne we descended to the plains of Holland; and we resolved to post the remainder of our way, for the wind was contrary and the stream of the river was too gen-tle to aid us.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had lost a third of hismen in that fight and the remainder slogged tiredly through the rain across the country toward the Chattahoochee River.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The giant, thereupon, carried the man to within about a hundred leagues of the castle, where he left him, saying, 'You will be able to walk the remainder of the way your-self.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I thought it my part to obey, and, for fear of falling, laid myself at full length upon the handkerchief, with the remainder of which he lapped me up to the head for further security, and in this manner carried me home to his house.
-- I took out my small provisions and after having re-freshed myself, I secured the remainder in a cave, whereof there were great numbers; I gathered plenty of eggs upon the rocks, and got a quantity of dry sea-weed, and parched grass, which I designed to kindle the next day, and roast my eggs as well as I could, for I had about me my flint, steel, match, and burning-glass.
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