remain是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 剩下， 余留； 留待， 尚须； 仍然是， 依旧是，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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had often, when at home, thought it hard to remain during my youth cooped up in one place and had longed to enter the world and take my station among other human beings.
-- Entreating him, therefore, to remain a few minutes at the bottom of the stairs, I darted up towards my own room.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They hadjust been expelled from the University of Georgia, the fourth university that had thrown them out in two years; andtheir older brothers, Tom and Boyd, had come home with them, because they refused to remain at an institution wherethe twins were not welcome.
-- They wouldhave considered it money well spent to rid the community of an eyesore, but he was well satisfied to remain and tosubsist miserably on the proceeds of a bale of cotton a year and the charity of his neighbors.
-- Scarlett sat on a high rosewood ottoman, under the shade of a huge oak in the rear of the house, her flounces andruffles billowing about her and two inches of green morocco slippers all that a lady could show and still remain alady peeping from beneath them.
-- It was two o'clock and the sun was warm overhead, butIndia, wearied with the three-day preparations for the barbecue, was only too glad to remain sitting beneath the arbor,shouting remarks to a deaf old gentleman from Fayetteville.
-- From the window on the landing, she could see the group of mensitting under the arbor, drinking from tall glasses, and she knew they would remain there until late afternoon.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sarah Pocket and Georgiana contended who should remain last; but Sarah was too knowing to be outdone, and ambled round Georgiana with that artful slipperiness that the latter was obliged to take precedence.
-- A tremulous uncertainty of the action of all her limbs soon became a part of her regular state, and afterwards, at intervals of two or three months, she would often put her hands to her head, and would then remain for about a week at a time in some gloomy aberration of mind.
-- I was to go to "Barnard's Inn," to young Mr. Pocket's rooms, where a bed had been sent in for my accommodation; I was to remain with young Mr. Pocket until Monday; on Monday I was to go with him to his father's house on a visit, that I might try how I liked it.
-- At length, it was voted that there was no help for the angry gentleman, and that he must either go in his chance company or remain behind.
-- "I suppose it will be difficult for you to remain here now, Biddy dear?"
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She told him her story, and as she pleased him he asked her if she would marry him, but she answered: 'No,' for she wanted to remain faithful to her sweetheart Roland, although he had deserted her.
-- Finally, she laid a letter near him, in which, after giving him particulars of the food and drink she had left for him, she finished with the following words: 'I see that as long as you remain here you will never be able to set me free; if, however, you still wish to do so, come to the golden castle of Stromberg; this is well within your power to accomplish.'
-- The man now thought he should like to continue his journey, but the gi-ant begged him to remain for a day or two longer until the return of his brother, who was away in search of provisions.
-- When he saw that it was impossible to reach her, he was greatly 280 Grimms' Fairy Talesgrieved, and said to himself, 'I will remain here and wait for her,' so he built himself a little hut, and there he sat and watched for a whole year, and every day he saw the king's daughter driving round her castle, but still was unable to get nearer to her.
-- 'I will allow you to watch by it once more, but if this happens for the third time then the well is polluted and you can no longer remain with me.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I walked with the utmost circumspection, to avoid treading on any stragglers who might remain in the streets, although the orders were very strict, that all people should keep in their houses, at their own peril.
-- And so unmeasureable is the ambition of princes, that he seemed to think of nothing less than reducing the whole empire of Blefuscu into a province, and governing it, by a viceroy; of destroying the Big- endian exiles, and com-pelling that people to break the smaller end of their eggs, by which he would remain the sole monarch of the whole world.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The only condition (over and above your good behaviour) I make is, that you decide now, at once, whether to accompany me or remain here.
-- If he should wish her to remain here a day or two longer, of course she can, ma'am.'
-- Sissy, with her dark eyes wonderingly directed to Louisa's face, was uncertain whether to say more or to remain silent.
-- 'Well, ma'am,' resumed Bounderby, 'under these circumstances, I imagine it would not be agreeable to a character like yours to remain here, though you would be very welcome here.'
-- Step by step, onward and downward, towards some end, yet so gradually, that she believed herself to remain motionless.
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