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：
-- The Narragansetts were suffered to browse on the branches of the trees and shrubs that were thinly scattered over the summit of the hill, while the remains of their provisions were spread under the shade of a beech, that stretched its horizontal limbs like a canopy above them.
-- The savage spurned the worthless rags, and perceiving that the shawl had already become a prize to another, his bantering but sullen smile changing to a gleam of ferocity, he dashed the head of the infant against a rock, and cast its quivering remains to her very feet.
-- A knot of warriors soon entered the place again, and re-issuing, they bore the senseless remains into the adjacent woods.
-- The cold and senseless remains of his son was all to him, and every other sense but that of sight seemed frozen, in order that his eyes might take their final gaze at those lineaments he had so long loved, and which were now about to be closed forever from his view.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The fact remains that he's a great artist, a very great artist."
-- Under a cover were the remains of a piece of cheese, and in a tin box was a crust of bread.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "What still remains to be thrown out?"
-- Then, preceded by the dog, who seemed to invite them by short barks to come with him, and followed by the reporter and the boy, he dashed out, after having put up in his handkerchief the remains of the supper.
-- The remains of the capybara would be enough to sustain Harding and his companions for at least twenty-four hours.
-- The remains of the capybara and some dozens of the stone-pine almonds formed their supper.
-- When the heap of pyrites had been entirely reduced by fire, the result of the operation, consisting of sulphate of iron, sulphate of alumina, flint, remains of coal, and cinders was placed in a basinful of water.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a very aged, ghostly place; the church had been built many hundreds of years ago, and had once had a convent or monastery attached; for arches in ruins, remains of oriel windows, and fragments of blackened walls, were yet standing; while other portions of the old building, which had crumbled away and fallen down, were mingled with the churchyard earth and overgrown with grass, as if they too claimed a burying-place and sought to mix their ashes with the dust of men.
-- In like manner, when the aforesaid antiquaries did argue and contend that a certain secret vault was not the tomb of a grey-haired lady who had been hanged and drawn and quartered by glorious Queen Bess for succouring a wretched priest who fainted of thirst and hunger at her door, the bachelor did solemnly maintain, against all comers, that the church was hallowed by the said poor lady's ashes; that her remains had been collected in the night from four of the city's gates, and thither in secret brought, and there deposited; and the bachelor did further (being highly excited at such times) deny the glory of Queen Bess, and assert the immeasurably greater glory of the meanest woman in her realm, who had a merciful and tender heart.
-- It remains but to dismiss the leaders of the little crowd who have borne us company upon the road, and so to close the journey.
-- It was rumoured afterwards that this horrible and barbarous ceremony had been dispensed with, and that the remains had been secretly given up to Tom Scott.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "There remains to put on wings and fly," said an old man with smiling eyes and gray beard.
-- "And my conscience demands that I sacrifice my liberty in expiation of my sin, and my decision to marry her, although but fictitiously, and follow her wherever she may be sent, remains unaltered," he said to himself, with spiteful obstinacy, and, leaving the hospital, he made his way with resolute step to the prison gate.
-- "Because, while the question of your relations remains undecided, she cannot choose."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was evidently the derelict remains of some vast structure, to what end built I could not determine.
-- Whatever the reason, the fact remains that the sun was very much hotter than we know it.
-- If that is so, it remains for us to live as though it were not so.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have that curiosity beside me at this moment, but not a trace of writing now remains beyond a single scratch, such as a man might make with his thumb-nail.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It remains to be seen," I said, "if these forests are full of game, and if the game is not such as will hunt the hunter himself."
-- Further on, some remains of a gigantic aqueduct; here the high base of an Acropolis, with the floating outline of a Parthenon; there traces of a quay, as if an ancient port had formerly abutted on the borders of the ocean, and disappeared with its merchant vessels and its war-galleys.
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