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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hook had fixed right in the stomach, which was found to be absolutely empty, and the disappointed sailors were just going to throw the remains overboard, when the boatswain's attention was attracted by some large object sticking fast in one of the viscera.
-- This venerable edifice, so marvelously described by Walter Scott, remains intact amid the ruins made by the Reformation; and it was there, beneath its lofty arches, in the grand nave, in the presence of an immense crowd, and surrounded by tombs as thickly set as in a cemetery, that they all assembled to implore the blessing of Heaven on their expedition, and to put themselves under the protection of Providence.
-- Presently ruins came in sight, crumbling buildings, which the night invested with grandeur, the sad remains of a deserted settlement, whose name will be an eternal protest against these fertile shores and forests full of game.
-- See!there are the remains of a fire left by the Indians, and there are the marks of the mares and the sheep."
-- "That remains to be seen; but if he doesn't, I give it up," replied Paganel.
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：
-- Yes, I have very little hesitation in saying that could we examine the waste-paper baskets of the hotels around Charing Cross until we found the remains of the mutilated Times leader we could lay our hands straight upon the person who sent this singular mes-sage.
-- And now, Watson, it only remains for us to find out by wire the identity of the cabman, No.
-- But the moor with its mysteries and its strange inhabitants remains as inscrutable as ever.
-- Beside it were the crumbling remains of the cottages of the miners, driven away no doubt by the foul reek of the surrounding swamp.
-- The Vandeleurs found it con-venient to change their name to Stapleton, and he brought the remains of his fortune, his schemes for the future, and his taste for entomology to the south of England.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It only remains for me, then, to thank Nastasia Phili-povna for the great delicacy with which she has treated me,' said Gania, as pale as death, and with quivering lips.
-- 'Let me add to this that in every idea emanating from genius, or even in every serious human idea born in the human brain there always remains something some sediment which cannot be expressed to others, though one wrote volumes and lectured upon it for five-and-thir-ty years.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He is implacable and yet if a man's brother or son has been slain he will accept a fine by way of amends from him that killed him, and the wrong-doer having paid in full remains in peace among his own people; but as for you, Achilles, the gods have put a wicked unforgiving spirit in your heart, and this, all about one single girl, whereas we now offer you the seven best we have, and much else into the bargain.
-- Till now I made sure that I alone was to fall here at Troy away from Argos, while you were to return to Phthia, bring back my son with you in your own ship, and show him all my property, my bondsmen, and the greatness of my house for Peleus must surely be either dead, or what little life remains to him is oppressed alike with the infirmities of age and ever present fear lest he should hear the sad tidings of my death.'
-- Have pity also on your unhappy father while life yet remains to him on me, whom the son of Saturn will destroy by a terrible doom on the threshold of old age, after I have seen my sons slain and my daughters haled away as captives, my bridal chambers pillaged, little children dashed to earth amid the rage of battle, and my sons' wives dragged away by the cruel hands of the Achaeans; in the end fierce hounds will tear me in pieces at my own gates after some one has beaten the life out of my body with sword or spear-hounds that I myself reared and fed at my own table to guard my gates, but who will yet lap my blood and then lie all distraught at my doors.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the fact remains that I saw I certainly saw right down his sleeve " "But did you are you sure?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Presently our meal came to an end; the misshapen mon-ster with the pointed ears cleared the remains away, and Montgomery left me alone in the room again.
-- As it was, I went to such a distance that the rabbit's remains were hidden.
-- As I watched them disposing of the mangled remains of M'ling, I heard a light footfall behind me, and turning quickly saw the big Hyena-swine perhaps a dozen yards away.
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：
-- 'I like not the principle of the natives, which teaches them to submit without a struggle, in emergencies that ap-pear desperate,' he said, while busied in this employment; 'our own maxim, which says, 'while life remains there is hope', is more consoling, and better suited to a soldier's temperament.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "She asks only in return," said Carrie, scarcely hearing the small, scheduled reply of her lover, and putting herself even more in harmony with the plaintive melody now issuing from the orchestra, "that when you look upon her your eyes shall speak devotion; that when you address her your voice shall be gentle, loving, and kind; that you shall not despise her because she cannot understand all at once your vigorous thoughts and ambitious designs; for, when misfortune and evil have defeated your greatest purposes, her love remains to console you.
-- She remembered that she was hungry and went to the little cupboard in the rear room where were the remains of one of their breakfasts.
-- This thing was the remains of his old-time cocksureness and independence.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I do not know how this really happened, yet the fact remains that one fine day this piece of wood found itself in the shop of an old carpenter.
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