remains是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. (pl. ) 剩余， 残余， 遗迹，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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Conceive what the events of a week have done in that family!While poor Mrs. Churchill lived, I suppose there could not have been a hope, a chance, a possibility; but scarcely are her remains at rest in the family vault, than her husband is persuaded to act exactly opposite to what she would have required.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This yearly gathering was upon the summit of a hill which retained in good preservation the remains of an ancient earthwork, consisting of a huge rampart and entrenchment of an oval form encircling the top of the hill, though somewhat broken down here and there.
-- Underneath this was now inscribed in new letters: In the Same Grave lieThe Remains of the aforesaidFrancis Troy,Who died December 24th, 18 ,Aged 26 years.
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.
-- My mother was dead, but we had still duties which we ought to perform; we must continue our course with the rest and learn to think ourselves fortunate whilst one remains whom the spoiler 40 Frankensteinhas not seized.
-- Yet it is in your power to recompense me, and deliver them from an evil which it only remains for you to make so great, that not only you and your family, but thousands of others, shall be swallowed up in the whirlwinds of its rage.
-- 'It was noon when I awoke, and allured by the warmth of the sun, which shone brightly on the white ground, I de-termined to recommence my travels; and, depositing the remains of the peasant's breakfast in a wallet I found, I pro-122 Frankensteinceeded across the fields for several hours, until at sunset I arrived at a village.
-- My father saw this change with pleasure, and he turned his thoughts to-wards the best method of eradicating the remains of my melancholy, which every now and then would return by fits, and with a devouring blackness overcast the approaching sunshine.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "That remains to be seen."
-- She left the dining room without eating, and went out onto the back porch where she found Pork, barefooted andin the ragged remains of his best livery, sitting on the steps cracking peanuts.
-- Within their circle lay the ruins of John Wilkes' house, the charred remains of that oncestately home which had crowned the hill in white-columned dignity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "There is some wisits p'r'aps," said Joe, "as for ever remains open to the question, Pip.
-- "I should think not!Now you are to understand, secondly, Mr. Pip, that the name of the person who is your liberal benefactor remains a profound secret, until the person chooses to reveal it.
-- The remains of my poor sister had been brought round by the kitchen door, and, it being a point of Undertaking ceremony that the six bearers must be stifled and blinded under a horrible black velvet housing with a white border, the whole looked like a blind monster with twelve human legs, shuffling and blundering along, under the guidance of two keepers,--the postboy and his comrade.
-- That is his power over you as long as he remains in England, and that would be his reckless course if you forsook him."
-- On the evening of the very night when the object of her jealousy was strangled as I tell you, the young woman presented herself before Provis for one moment, and swore that she would destroy the child (which was in her possession), and he should never see it again; then she vanished.--There's the worst arm comfortably in the sling once more, and now there remains but the right hand, which is a far easier job.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My stomach remains empty, and I must tie my-self up if I am not to die of hunger.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the exasperated Bounderby, 'while he was snoring, or choking, or Dutch-clocking, or something or other being asleep some fellows, somehow, whether previously concealed in the house or not remains to be seen, got to young Tom's safe, forced it, and abstracted the contents.
-- Harthouse,' returned Sissy, with a blending of gentleness and steadiness that quite defeated him, and with a simple confidence in his being bound to do what she required, that held him at a singular disadvantage, 'the only reparation that remains with you, is to leave here immediately and finally.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nothing more remains but to descend into the bowels of the earth."
-- This disposition of the soil is called hraun: the crumbled lava on the surface was in some instances like ship cables stretched out horizontally, in others coiled up in heaps; an immense field of lava came from the neighboring mountains, all extinct volcanoes, but whose remains showed what once they had been.
-- If, then, the steam remains in its normal or habitual state, if their energy does not increase, and if you add to this, the remark that the wind is not replaced by heavy atmospheric pressure and dead calm, you may be quite sure that there is no fear of any immediate eruption."
-- "At all events, if I am right," I thought to myself, "I must certainly find some remains of primitive plants, and it will be absolutely necessary to give way to such indubitable evidence.
-- My feet, so long accustomed to the hard and arid lava soil, suddenly found themselves treading on a kind of soft dust, the remains of plants and shells.
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