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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why, then, did I remain silent?
-- "Yes, you have no idea how many unknown mountains, glaciers, volcanoes there are which remain to be studied.
-- His engagement with my uncle was by no means to cease with our arrival at Stapi; he was further to remain in his service during the whole time required for the completion of his scientific investigations, at the fixed salary of three rix-dollars a week, being exactly fourteen shillings and twopence, minus one farthing, English currency.
-- All take their rise in the fierce action of interior fires, and to believe that the central mass did not remain in a state of liquid fire, white hot, was simply and purely madness.
-- If the kindly heavens would only remain densely clouded for six more days, we should have to put off our voyage of discovery for another year, when certainly there would be one person fewer in the party.
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：
-- There's no woman I can really want when I'm faced with her, and I'm not going to start forcing myself to it...My God, no!I'll remain as I am, and lead the mental life.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I knew that your ascendancy over him was the cause of his going to China to take care of the business there, while you took care of it here (though I do not even now know whether these were really terms of separation that you agreed upon); and that it was your will that I should remain with you until I was twenty, and then go to him as I did.
-- But, to the last, the irresolute hand of old would remain in the pocket into which he had slipped the money during two or three turns about the yard, lest the transaction should be too conspicuous to the general body of collegians.
-- A composed and unobtrusive self-sustainment was noticeable in Daniel Doyce a calm knowledge that what was true must remain true, in spite of all the Barnacles in the family ocean, and would be just the truth, and neither more nor less when even that sea had run dry which had a kind of greatness in it, though not of the official quality.
-- No; he said confidently, no!And, he said, Heaven forbid that Frederick should be there in any other character than in his present voluntary character!Gentlemen, whoever came to that College, to remain there a length of time, must have strength of character to go through a good deal and to come out of a good deal.
-- She was younger than her young mistress, and would she remain to see her always held up as the only creature who was young and interesting, and to be cherished and loved?
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With hearty thanks and best wishes, I remain 'Your grateful friend and humble servant, 'JAMES LAURENCE' 'There, Beth, that's an honor to be proud of, I'm sure!
-- 'Alas, my cruel fate condemns me to remain here till my tyrant is destroyed.'
-- Her father liked the metaphysical streak which had un-consciously got into it, so that was allowed to remain though she had her doubts about it.
-- Here, cherished like a household saint in its shrine, sat Beth, tranquil and busy as ever, for nothing could change the sweet, unselfish nature, and even while preparing to leave life, she tried to make it happier for those who should remain behind.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meanwhile Captain Bildad sat earnestly and steadfastly eyeing Queequeg, and at last rising solemnly and fumbling in the huge pockets of his broad-skirted drab coat, took out a bundle of tracts, and selecting one entitled "The Latter Day Coming; or No Time to Lose," placed it in Queequeg's hands, and then grasping them and the book with both his, looked earnestly into his eyes, and said, "Son of darkness, I must do my duty by thee; I am part owner of this ship, and feel concerned for the souls of all its crew; if thou still clingest to thy Pagan ways, which I sadly fear, I beseech thee, remain not for aye a Belial bondsman.
-- And all this seemed natural enough; especially as in the merchant service many captains never show themselves on deck for a considerable time after heaving up the anchor, but remain over the cabin table, having a farewell merry-making with their shore friends, before they quit the ship for good with the pilot.
-- But all this might remain inadequately estimated, were not something said here of the peculiar usages of whaling-vessels when meeting each other in foreign seas, and especially on a common cruising-ground.
-- As soon as Steelkilt leaves me, I swear to beach this boat on yonder island, and remain there six days.
-- For all these reasons, then, any way you may look at it, you must needs conclude that the great Leviathan is that one creature in the world which must remain unpainted to the last.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He finished the gin-and-water, and added, 'Oliver being now too old to remain here, the board have determined to have him back into the house.
-- With these exceptions, there was neither sight nor sound of any living thing; and often, when it grew dark, and he was tired of wandering from room to room, he would crouch in the corner of the passage by the street-door, to be as near living people as he could; and would remain there, listening and counting the hours, until the Jew or the boys returned.
-- The hope of eventually clearing himself with them, too, and explaining how he had been forced away, had buoyed him up, and sustained him, under many of his recent trials; and now, the idea that they should have gone so far, and carried with them the belief that he was an impostor and a robber--a belief which might remain uncontradicted to his dying day--was almost more than he could bear.
-- My feelings remain unchanged, as they ever will; and why should I suffer the pain of a delay in giving them vent, which can be productive of no earthly good?
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