Remain
[rɪ'meɪn] or [rɪ'men]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc.; 'There remains the question of who pulled the trigger'; 'Carter remains the only President in recent history under whose Presidency the U.S. did not fight a war'.
伊娃手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.
(v. i.) To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
(v. t.) To await; to be left to.
(n.) State of remaining; stay.
(n.) That which is left; relic; remainder; -- chiefly in the plural.
(n.) That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.
(n.) The posthumous works or productions, esp. literary works, of one who is dead; as, Cecil's
錄入:玛莎
同義詞及近義詞：
v. n. [1]. Continue, endure, abide, stay, tarry, keep, last.[2]. Be left, be left behind.
爱德温錄入
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Stay, continue, wait, stop, tarry, halt, sojourn, rest, dwell, abide, last,endure, accrue, survive
ANT:Fly, vanish, remove, depart, speed, hasten, press, flit, disappear, pass
沙琳編輯
解釋/意思:
v.i. to stay or be left behind: to continue in the same place: to be left after or out of a greater number: to continue in an unchanged form or condition: to last.—n. stay: abode: what is left esp. in pl. Remains′ a corpse: the literary productions of one dead.—n. Remain′der that which remains or is left behind after the removal of a part: the balance: an interest in an estate to come into effect after a certain other event happens: that which remains of an edition when the sale of a book has practically ceased.—adj. left over.
整理:玛丽
例句/造句/用法:
- I then signed to Mr. Peggotty to remain where he was, and emerged from their shade to speak to her. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- The shoes are then covered with a coat of rubber varnish, and are put into cars and run into the vulcanizing ovens, where they remain from six to seven hours at a temperature of about 275°. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- I would suggest that in the meantime, we remain perfectly quiet, and keep these matters secret even from Oliver himself. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- In Middlemarch a wife could not long remain ignorant that the town held a bad opinion of her husband. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- There are reasons now known to me, reasons in which you have no part, rendering it far better for you that you should not remain here. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Instead he let him remain in his dungeon in the Bastille, where he died in 1589. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- If a close coil of wire is suspended between the poles of a strong horseshoe magnet, it will not assume any characteristic position but will remain wherever placed. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The march, now, had to be made with great caution, for he was approaching Lee's army and nearing the country that still remained open to the enemy. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- If the central depths were untouched, hardly a pin-point of surface remained the same. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Meantime the whole hall was in a stir; most people rose and remained standing, for a change; some walked about, all talked and laughed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The lunch was soon brought, but it remained for some time on the table. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- As she pressed me to stay to dinner, I remained, and I believe we talked about nothing but him all day. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Ott, who has remained in his employ for over forty years. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The tie between the Dagonets, the du Lacs of Maryland, and their aristocratic Cornish kinsfolk, the Trevennas, had always remained close and cordial. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- But after the building of the temple and the organization of the priesthood, the prophetic type remains over and outside the formal religious scheme. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Over most of the area of Western Central Asia and Persia and Mesopotamia, the ancient distinction of nomad and settled population remains to this day. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Ancient remains point to a much wider distribution of the Basque speech and people over Spain. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- If it fails on its merits, he doesn't worry or fret about it, but, on the contrary, regards it as a useful fact learned; remains cheerful and tries something else. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The remains of this extensive wood are still to be seen at the noble seats of Wentworth, of Warncliffe Park, and around Rotherham. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- At Cnossos there are Neolithic remains as old or older than any of the pre-dynastic remains of Egypt. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- There was, consequently, a delay of some four days in building bridges out of the remains of the old railroad bridge. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- You need not fear to hear the few remaining words we have to say. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- The old woman's face was wrinkled; her two remaining teeth protruded over her under lip; and her eyes were bright and piercing. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Circumstances, of late, had combined to cut her off more and more from her few remaining friends. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Genoa and Venice, the only two remaining which can pretend to an independent existence, have both been enfeebled by it. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I DID proceed to Windsor, but not with the intention of remaining there. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- After remaining in thought a minute he added gently, I will not intrude upon you longer. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- A large part of the remaining portions of the book read like good Scripture, however. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
編輯:纳内特