remain
/rɪˈmeɪn/verb
no obj.
1- continue to exist, especially after other similar or related people or things have ceased to exist留下, 遗留：
a cloister is all that remains of the monastery.
原来的修道院只剩下了一个回廊。
1.1
- stay in the place that one has been occupying留在, 逗留：
her husband remained at the flat in Regent's Park.
她丈夫还住在摄政公园公寓里。
1.2
- with complement continue to possess a particular quality or fulfil a particular role保持不变, 一直是：
he had remained alert the whole time.
他始终保持着警惕。
1.3
- be left over after others or other parts have been completed, used, or dealt with剩余, 余留：
as adj. remaining he would see out the remaining two years of his contract.他会坚持完成合同中剩下的两年工作。
短语
remain to be seen
- used to express the notion that something is not yet known or certain尚待见分晓：
she has broken her leg, but it remains to be seen how badly.
她把腿摔断了, 但有多严重还有待了解。
词源
late Middle English: from Old French remain-, stressed stem of remanoir, from Latin remanere, from re- (expressing intensive force) + manere 'to stay'.