核心畫面
What is still there after most of something is gone — the leftover bits on after the meal, the fire, or the years have taken the rest.
可以想成一桌菜吃完後盤裡剩下的那一點、一場大火燒過後沒燒盡的殘骸、或一段歲月過去後還留在原地的東西。重點畫面比較像「…更多收起
可以想成一桌菜吃完後盤裡剩下的那一點、一場大火燒過後沒燒盡的殘骸、或一段歲月過去後還留在原地的東西。重點畫面比較像「大部分都不見了，但有一小部分還在」——remains 指的就是那「還在」的部分。原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
remainsnoun/ɹɪˈmeɪnz/
- 1
The body or any of its matter that are left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse.
- They buried the remains of their longtime friend in the town cemetery.
- The victim's remains were one small piece of bone.
- 2
Historical or archaeological relics.
- 3
The extant writings of a deceased person.
- To his great intellectual powers his published remains bear abundant witness.
- 4
All that is left of the stock of some things; remnants.
- He couldn't bring himself to eat the remains of the chicken dinner.
- Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […] A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.
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資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。