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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the table was his plate, with potatoes and the remains of the chop; also bread in a basket, salt, and a blue mug with beer.
-- There remains the inexhaustive realm of abstract forms, and creativity with its shifting charac-ter ever determined afresh by its own creatures, and God, upon whose wisdom all forms of order depend.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was an affecting illustration of the fallacy of human projects, to behold her lover, with the great hat pulled over his eyes, the velvet collar turned up as if it rained, the plum-coloured coat buttoned to conceal the silken waistcoat of golden sprigs, and the little direction-post pointing inexorably home, creeping along by the worst back-streets, and composing, as he went, the following new inscription for a tombstone in St George's Churchyard:'Here lie the mortal remains Of JOHN CHIVERY, Never anything worth mentioning, Who died about the end of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, Of a broken heart, Requesting with his last breath that the word AMY might be inscribed over his ashes, which was accordingly directed to be done, By his afflicted Parents.'
-- When his tears were dried, and he sobbed in his weakness no longer, and was free from that touch of shame, and had recovered his usual bearing, she prepared the remains of his supper afresh, and, sitting by his side, rejoiced to see him eat and drink.
-- 'I am just landed from the packet-boat, madam, and have been delayed by the weather: the infernal weather!In consequence of this, madam, some necessary business that I should otherwise have transacted here within the regular hours (necessary business because money-business), still remains to be done.
-- Though whether Mr and Mrs Gowan are desirable acquaintances, remains to be determined.'
-- Through the rugged remains of temples and tombs and palaces and senate halls and theatres and amphitheatres of ancient days, hosts of tongue-tied and blindfolded moderns were carefully feeling their way, incessantly repeating Prunes and Prism in the endeavour to set their lips according to the received form.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meg helped Jo clear away the remains of the feast, which took half the afternoon and left them so tired that they agreed to be contented with tea and toast for supper.
-- 'I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen,' observed Jo mysteri-ously.
-- 'I am bold to say it in spite of the rain, because so short a time remains to me.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Spite of this frigid winter night in the boisterous Atlantic, spite of my wet feet and wetter jacket, there was yet, it then seemed to me, many a pleasant haven in store; and meads and glades so eternally vernal, that the grass shot up by the spring, untrodden, unwilted, remains at midsummer.
-- That immaculate manliness we feel within ourselves, so far within us, that it remains intact though all the outer character seem gone; bleeds with keenest anguish at the undraped spectacle of a valor-ruined man.
-- First: The uncertain, unsettled condition of this science of Cetology is in the very vestibule attested by the fact, that in some quarters it still remains a moot point whether a whale be a fish.
-- But the third Emir, now seeing himself all alone on the quarter-deck, seems to feel relieved from some curious restraint; for, tipping all sorts of knowing winks in all sorts of directions, and kicking off his shoes, he strikes into a sharp but noiseless squall of a hornpipe right over the Grand Turk's head; and then, by a dexterous sleight, pitching his cap up into the mizentop for a shelf, he goes down rollicking so far at least as he remains visible from the deck, reversing all other processions, by bringing up the rear with music.
-- This is much; yet Ahab's larger, darker, deeper part remains unhinted.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You may depend upon it, Madam,' said Miss Bingley, with cold civility, 'that Miss Bennet will receive every pos-sible attention while she remains with us.'
-- He must write his own sermons; and the time that remains will not be too much for his parish duties, and the care and improvement of his dwelling, which he cannot be excused from making as a comfortable as possible.
-- Thus much for my general intention in favour of matrimony; it remains to be told why my views were directed towards Longbourn instead of my own neighbourhood, where I can assure you there are many amiable young women.
-- And now nothing remains but for me but to assure you in the most animated language of the violence of my affection.
-- From his garden, Mr. Collins would have led them round his two meadows; but the ladies, not having shoes to en-counter the remains of a white frost, turned back; and while Sir William accompanied him, Charlotte took her sister and friend over the house, extremely well pleased, probably, to have the opportunity of showing it without her husband's help.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I also ordered him to bury the horrid remains of their barbarous feast, which I could not think of doing myself; nay, I could not bear to see them if I went that way; all which he punctually performed, and effaced the very appearance of the savages being there; so that when I went again, I could scarce know where it was, otherwise than by the corner of the wood pointing to the place.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And then rising, she went away to join Marianne, whom she found, as she expected, in her own room, leaning, in silent misery, over the small remains of a fire, which, till Elinor's entrance, had been her only light.
-- So altered so faded worn down by acute suffering of every kind!hardly could I believe the melancholy and sickly figure before me, to be the remains of the lovely, blooming, healthful girl, on whom I had once doted.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter VII THE LURE OF THE MATERIAL--BEAUTY SPEAKS FOR ITSELF The true meaning of money yet remains to be popularly explained and comprehended.
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