remnant是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 残余, 剩余，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 Indian then fastened his eyes keenly on the open countenance of Heyward, but meeting his glance, he turned them quickly away, and seating himself deliberately on the ground, he drew forth the remnant of some former repast, and began to eat, though not without first bending his looks slowly and cautiously around him.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Only in St. Swithin's, since there his experiment was so excellently begun, did some remnant of honor keep him from distributing the phage universally; but the conduct of this experiment he turned over to Stokes.
-- As tourists do when their minds have been broadened and enriched by travel, when they return to New Jersey or Wisconsin with the credit of having spent a whole six months in the West Indies and South America, the respectable remnant studied one another fastidiously, and noted the slim pale man who seemed so restless, who all day trudged round the deck, who after midnight was seen standing by himself at the rail.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Korableva loosened her gray braid and began to pick out the pieces of torn hair, while the other held the tattered remnant of her shirt to her breast--both shouting, explaining and complaining against one another.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Joseph Poorgrass was curled round in the fashion of a hedge-hog, apparently in attempts to present the least possible portion of his surface to the air; and behind him was dimly visible an unimportant remnant of William Smallbury.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And so, leaving the remnant of these damned souls still going hither and thither and moaning, as the day grew clearer, I tied some grass about my feet and limped on across smoking ashes and among black stems that still pulsated internally with fire, towards the hiding-place of the Time Machine.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mammy cried silently as she sponged thegaunt bodies, using the remnant of an old apron as a cloth.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If ever I should wish for a retreat whither I might steal from the world and its distractions, and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled life, I know of none more promising than this little valley.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Calling at the Bank yesterday evening, for Mr. Bounderby's address, I found an ancient lady there, who seems to entertain great admiration for your sister,' observed Mr. James Harthouse, throwing away the last small remnant of the cigar he had now smoked out.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It lay there, a last remnant of all our great preparations for the mad and senseless journey!
-- If we make the fatal mistake of husbanding our little remnant of food, we may probably prolong our wretched existence a few hours--but we shall remain weak to the end."
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：
-- The wood was a remnant of the great forest where Robin Hood hunted, and this riding was an old, old thoroughfare coming across country.
-- She liked the INWARDNESS of the remnant of forest, the unspeaking reticence of the old trees.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As there truly was no reason why he should have the least interest in it, Arthur Clennam went on to the present purport of his visit; namely, to make Plornish the instrument of effecting Tip's release, with as little detriment as possible to the self-reliance and self-helpfulness of the young man, supposing him to possess any remnant of those qualities: without doubt a very wide stretch of supposition.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Next was Tashtego, an unmixed Indian from Gay Head, the most westerly promontory of Martha's Vineyard, where there still exists the last remnant of a village of red men, which has long supplied the neighboring island of Nantucket with many of her most daring harpooneers.
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