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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There remain the people who will actually surround Sir Henry Baskerville upon the moor.'
-- I explained everything to him: how I had found it impos-sible to remain behind, how I had followed him, and how I had witnessed all that had occurred.
-- On the other hand, if I should find the hut and its tenant should not be within it I must remain there, however long the vigil, until he returned.
-- As it is, I have been able to get about as I could not possibly have done had I been living in the Hall, and I remain an unknown factor in the business, ready to throw in all my weight at a critical moment.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have submitted to my fate; but my heart will always be with you, whether we remain united, or whether we part.
-- In this and five other houses, three over-looking Nevsky, two in the Morskaya, are all that remain of my personal friends.
-- 'How long do you remain here, prince?'
-- She thought he would remain for some time, as he was greatly pleased with the society of General Ivolgin and of the whole fam-ily.
-- Indeed, it would have been impossible for him to remain in ignorance considering the intimate relationship between him, Varvara Ardalionovna, and Ptitsin.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not one of them dared to remain sitting, but all stood up as he came among them.
-- Meanwhile the two hosts lifted up their hands and prayed saying, 'Father Jove, that rulest from Ida, most glorious in power, grant that he who first brought about this war between us may die, and enter the house of Hades, while we others remain at peace and abide by our oaths.'
-- If you will agree to this last Menelaus can take back Helen and the city of Priam may remain still inhab-ited.'
-- You have the intolerable and stubborn spirit of your mother Juno: it is all I can do to manage her, and it is her doing that you are now in this plight: still, I cannot let you remain longer in such great pain; you are my own off-spring, and it was by me that your mother conceived you; if, however, you had been the son of any other god, you are so destructive that by this time you should have been lying lower than the Titans.'
-- Paris did not remain long in his house.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You know the red colouring matter of blood; it can be made white colourless and remain with all the functions it has now!"
-- The place was already lit up and agreeably warm, and I decided to remain where I was, keeping a cautious eye on the two or three sets of shopmen and customers who were meandering through the place, until closing time came.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Less so, and probably far more extensive, were the operations of those mediaeval practitioners who made dwarfs and beg-gar-cripples, show-monsters, some vestiges of whose art still remain in the preliminary manipulation of the young mountebank or contortionist.
-- We were in just the state of equilibrium that would remain in one of those 'Happy Family' cages which animal-tamers ex-hibit, if the tamer were to leave it for ever.
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：
-- Merchant of Venice he suddenness of the flight of his guide, and the wild Tcries of the pursuers, caused Heyward to remain fixed, for a few moments, in inactive surprise.
-- He would have me,' she continued, her accents sink-ing under a deep consciousness of the degradation of the proposal, 'follow him to the wilderness; go to the habita-tions of the Hurons; to remain there; in short, to become his wife!Speak, then, Alice; child of my affections!sister of my love!And you, too, Major Heyward, aid my weak reason with your counsel.
-- Uncas, you are right; the dark-hair has been here, and she has fled like a frightened fawn, to the wood; none who could fly would remain to be murdered.
-- Hey-ward withdrew to the rampart, too uneasy and too little accustomed to the warfare of the woods to remain at ease under the possibility of such insidious attacks.
-- On the other hand, they were evident-ly disposed to remain bound to the place by an additional interest in the mysterious mummeries that they of course expected from such a visit.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I mention this peaceful spot with all possible laud for it is in such little retired Dutch valleys, found here and there embosomed in the great State of New York, that popula-tion, manners, and customs remain fixed, while the great torrent of migration and improvement, which is making such incessant changes in other parts of this restless coun-try, sweeps by them unobserved.
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