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：
-- The remainder of the night was spent in this manner, and it was hoped that morning would bring a calm.
-- The remainder was left with the wagon and the tent.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He is said to have about seven lawsuits upon his hands at present, which will probably swallow up the remainder of his fortune and so draw his sting and leave him harmless for the future.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Heyward could distinguish the impatient gesture of the scout, through the increasing shadows of the evening, and he moved in his footsteps, swiftly, toward the place where he had left the remainder of the party.
-- The roof of bark had long since fallen, and mingled with the soil, but the huge logs of pine, which had been hastily thrown together, still pre-served their relative positions, though one angle of the work had given way under the pressure, and threatened a speedy downfall to the remainder of the rustic edifice.
-- For many hours the travelers toiled on their laborious way, guided by a star, or following the direction of some water- course, until the scout called a halt, and holding a short consultation with the Indians, they lighted their fire, and made the usual preparations to pass the remainder of the night where they then were.
-- continued the laughing scout, as he pointed toward the remainder of the party, who, in obedience to the sig-nal, were already approaching; 'this is music which has its natural virtues; it brings two good rifles to my elbow, to say nothing of the knives and tomahawks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We do not shun our dying friends; the not having distinctly taken leave of one among them, whom we left in all kindness and affection, will often embitter the whole remainder of a life.
-- CHAPTER 22The remainder of that day and the whole of the next were a busy time for the Nubbles family, to whom everything connected with Kit's outfit and departure was matter of as great moment as if he had been about to penetrate into the interior of Africa, or to take a cruise round the world.
-- Lighting her candle, she retreated as silently as she had come, and, gaining her own room once more, sat up during the remainder of that long, long, miserable night.
-- The remainder of their conversation was carried on in a lower tone of voice, and was sufficiently concise; relating merely to the execution of the project, and the best precautions for diverting suspicion.
-- With less and less of hope or strength, as they went on, but with an undiminished resolution not to betray by any word or sigh her sinking state, so long as she had energy to move, the child, throughout the remainder of that hard day, compelled herself to proceed: not even stopping to rest as frequently as usual, to compensate in some measure for the tardy pace at which she was obliged to walk.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And if I do give it away, then all I have to tell you is that the remainder will be theirs, for I shall hardly marry.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before that, we had got the treasure stowed and had shipped enough water and the remainder of the goat meat in case of any distress; and at last, one fine morning, we weighed anchor, which was about all that we could manage, and stood out of North Inlet, the same colours flying that the captain had flown and fought under at the palisade.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Each had enough decorum to suspend further hostilities: Heathcliff placed his f ists, out of temptation, in his pockets; Mrs. Heathcliff curled her lip, and walked to a seat far off, where she kept her word by playing the part of a statue during the remainder of my stay.
-- I didn't,' sobbed the youth, escaping from my hands, and finishing the remainder of the purification with his cambric pockethandkerchief.
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