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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER II THE THREE DOCUMENTSALL that could be discovered, however, on these pieces of paper was a few words here and there, the remainder of the lines being almost completely obliterated by the action of the water.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I thought it more consistent with prudence and justice to pass the remainder of my days with my wife and family.
-- I therefore hoped they would not treat me as an enemy, since I meant them no harm, but was a poor Yahoo seeking some desolate place where to pass the remainder of his unfortunate life.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Throughout the remainder of the day, Bleeding Heart Yard was in consternation, as the grim Pancks cruised in it; haranguing the inhabitants on their backslidings in respect of payment, demanding his bond, breathing notices to quit and executions, running down defaulters, sending a swell of terror on before him, and leaving it in his wake.
-- Throughout the remainder of the day, Mr Pancks's What were they up to?
-- With the aid of its content, a newspaper, and some skimming of the cream of the pie-stock, Flora got through the remainder of the day in perfect good humour; though occasionally embarrassed by the consequences of an idle rumour which circulated among the credulous infants of the neighbourhood, to the effect that an old lady had sold herself to the pie-shop to be made up, and was then sitting in the pie-shop parlour, declining to complete her contract.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a postscript she desired him not to tell Amy that Beth was worse, she was coming home in the spring and there was no need of saddening the remainder of her stay.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How the soot flies!This must be the remainder the Greek made the Africans of.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With a hoarse grunt of contempt, Mr. Sikes seized the glass, and threw the remainder of its contents into the ashes: as a preparatory ceremony to filling it again for himself: which he did at once.
-- He dismissed him within some quarter of a mile of Mr. Sikes's residence, and performed the short remainder of the distance, on foot.
-- There were assembled, in that lower house of the domestic parliament, the women-servants, Mr. Brittles, Mr. Giles, the tinker (who had received a special invitation to regale himself for the remainder of the day, in consideration of his services), and the constable.
-- Above stairs, the remainder of the evening passed cheerfully away; for the doctor was in high spirits; and however fatigued or thoughtful Harry Maylie might have been at first, he was not proof against the worthy gentleman's good humour, which displayed itself in a great variety of sallies and professional recollections, and an abundance of small jokes, which struck Oliver as being the drollest things he had ever heard, and caused him to laugh proportionately; to the evident satisfaction of the doctor, who laughed immoderately at himself, and made Harry laugh almost as heartily, by the very force of sympathy.
-- On they all went; nor stopped they once to breathe, until the leader, striking off into an angle of the field indicated by Oliver, began to search, narrowly, the ditch and hedge adjoining; which afforded time for the remainder of the party to come up; and for Oliver to communicate to Mr. Losberne the circumstances that had led to so vigorous a pursuit.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Bingley intended it likewise, and sometimes made choice of his county; but as he was now provided with a good house and the liberty of a manor, it was doubtful to many of those who best knew the easiness of his temper, whether he might not spend the remainder of his days at Netherfield, and leave the next generation to purchase.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- bread, rice, three Dutch cheeses, five pieces of dried goat's flesh (which we lived much upon), and a little remainder of Eu-ropean corn, which had been laid by for some fowls which we brought to sea with us, but the fowls were killed.
-- The little remainder of corn that had been in the bag was all devoured by the rats, and I saw nothing in the bag but husks and dust; and being willing to have the bag for some other use (I think it was to put powder in, when I divided it for fear of the lightning, or some such use), I shook the husks of corn out of it on one side of my fortification, under the rock.
-- In the first place, I went among it to see what damage was already done, and found they had spoiled a good deal of it; but that as it was yet too green for them, the loss was not so great but that the remainder was likely to be a good crop if it could be saved.
-- That I shall not discuss, and perhaps cannot account for; but certainly they are a proof of the converse of spirits, and a secret communication between those embodied and those unembodied, and such a proof as can never be withstood; of which I shall have oc-casion to give some remarkable instances in the remainder of my solitary residence in this dismal place.
-- I continued in this thankful frame all the remainder of my time; and the conversation which employed the hours between Friday and me was such as made the three years which we lived there together perfectly and completely hap-py, if any such thing as complete happiness can be formed in a sublunary state.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These parlors are both too small for such parties of our friends as I hope to see often collected here; and I have some thoughts of throwing the passage into one of them with perhaps a part of the other, and so leave the remainder of that other for an entrance; this, with a new drawing room which may be easily added, and a bed-chamber and garret above, will make it a very snug little cottage.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During the remainder of the week it was very much the same.
-- The remainder he would pay up as soon as he could.
-- The remainder of the line was formed of strangers.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And he kept his word for the remainder of the year.
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