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- a part, number, or quantity that is left over剩余部分：
leave a few mushrooms for garnish and slice the remainder.
留一些蘑菇做菜肴装饰, 剩下的切成薄片。
1.1
- a part that is still to come其余部分, 其余：
the remainder of the year.
这一年余下的时间。
1.2
- the number which is left over in a division in which one quantity does not exactly divide another余数。
1.3
- a copy of a book left unsold when demand has fallen（因需求下降而未卖出的）剩书。
2
- Law an interest in an estate that becomes effective in possession only when a prior interest (devised at the same time) ends【律】有待继承产权, 指定继承产权, 未来继承产权, 残余权。
with obj.(常作be remaindered)
- dispose of (a book left unsold) at a reduced price削价出售（剩书）：
titles are being remaindered increasingly quickly to save on overheads.
为了节省日常开支, 剩书正在被越来越快地削价出售。
词源
late Middle English (in sense 2)： from Anglo-Norman French, from Latin remanere （see REMAIN）.