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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They are like cells in the body, essential, but, so long as they remain healthy, engulfed in the momentous whole.
-- The doctor told me that I mustn't remain with her.
-- He accepted willingly my invitation to remain for a few days in my apartment.
-- Now and then I caught sight of the swaying hearse in front of us, and our own driver urged his pair so that we might not remain behind.
-- I have given incidents that came to my knowledge, but they remain obscure because I do not know the reasons that led to them.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was accordingly settled that for a few days they would remain at the Chimneys so as to prepare themselves for an expedition, either along the shore or into the interior of the country.
-- But on consideration, it was thought necessary that someone should remain to keep in the fire, and to be at hand in the highly improbable event of Neb requiring aid.
-- But at last they succeeded, and could only remain standing by leaning against the rocks.
-- During these days of seclusion the settlers did not remain inactive.
-- But these questions are of too much importance to be allowed to remain long unsettled."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's very plain that the old man and I will remain at daggers drawn to the end of our lives, and that I have nothing to expect from him.
-- Without further preface he conducted them into his little school-room, which was parlour and kitchen likewise, and told them that they were welcome to remain under his roof till morning.
-- The landlord, who had apparently resolved to remain neutral until he knew which side of the question the stout man would espouse, chimed in at this place with 'Ah, to be sure, can't you let him speak, Isaac List?'
-- She was much startled, on returning home one night, to find that Mrs Jarley had commanded an announcement to be prepared, to the effect that the stupendous collection would only remain in its present quarters one day longer; in fulfilment of which threat (for all announcements connected with public amusements are well known to be irrevocable and most exact), the stupendous collection shut up next day.
-- It is difficult to understand how, possessed of these combined attractions, she should remain Miss Brass; but whether she had steeled her heart against mankind, or whether those who might have wooed and won her, were deterred by fears that, being learned in the law, she might have too near her fingers' ends those particular statutes which regulate what are familiarly termed actions for breach, certain it is that she was still in a state of celibacy, and still in daily occupation of her old stool opposite to that of her brother Sampson.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She wished to remain in the apartment, but the landlord would not permit a single woman to occupy it, and she returned to her aunt.
-- Nekhludoff had arranged his trip so that he might spend twenty-four hours with his aunts, but, seeing Katiousha, decided to remain over Easter Sunday, which was two days later, and wired to his friend and commander Shenbok, whom he was to meet at Odessa, to come to his aunts.
-- The physician was to remain over night, and Katiousha had to make the bed for him.
-- They could remain no longer, for the time for joining their regiment had arrived.
-- When he thought that she would be freed and remain in the city, he was undecided how he should act toward her, and it was a difficult matter.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I saw a richer green flow up the hillside, and remain there, without any wintry intermission.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed, it seemed impossible for either of us to remain much longer in the house; the fall of coals in the kitchen grate, the very ticking of the clock, filled us with alarms.
-- 5 The Last of the Blind ManY curiosity, in a sense, was stronger than my fear, for I could not remain where I was, but crept back to the bank again, whence, sheltering my head behind a bush of broom, I might command the road before our door.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Commander Farragut thought, and with reason, that it was better to remain in deep water, and keep clear of continents or islands, which the beast itself seemed to shun (perhaps because there was not enough water for him!suggested the greater part of the crew).
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