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- a part or quantity that is left after the greater part has been used, removed, or destroyed残余, 剩余物：
the bogs are an endangered remnant of a primeval landscape.
沼泽地是原始地貌的濒于灭绝的残余。
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- a piece of cloth left when the greater part has been used or sold零料, 零头布。
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- a surviving trace残迹：
a remnant of the past.
昔日的遗迹。
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- Christian Theology a small minority of people who will remain faithful to God and so be saved (in allusion to biblical prophecies concerning Israel)【基督教神学】（指极少数决心始终忠于上帝以获得救赎的）余剩民（典出圣经中有关以色列的预言）。
词源
Middle English: contraction of obsolete remenant from Old French remenant, from remenoir, remanoir 'remain'.