remain

英[r?'me?n] 美[r?'men]

反義詞perish

remain 停留，逗留，剩余，仍然

來自拉丁語 remanere,留下，停留，來自 re-,向后，往回，manere,留下，詞源同 mansion,permanent. 引申詞義剩余，仍然等。

remain: remain: [14] Latin manēre meant ‘stay’ (it has given English manor, mansion, permanent [15], etc). Combination with the prefix re- ‘back, in place’ produced remanēre ‘stay behind, remain’, which passed into English via Old French remanoir. Its present participle gave English remnant [14]. A variant of remanoir was remaindre, which is the source of English remainder [15].
=> manor, mansion, permanent, remnant
remain (v.): early 15c., from Anglo-French remayn-, Old French remain-, stressed stem of remanoir "stay, dwell, remain; be left; hold out," from Latin remanere "to remain, to stay behind; be left behind; endure, abide, last" (source also of Spanish remaner, Italian rimanere), from re- "back" (see re-) + manere "to stay, remain" (see mansion). Related: Remained; remaining.
remain (n.): "those left over or surviving," mid-15c., from Middle French remain, back-formation from Old French remanoir, remaindre, or else formed in Middle English from remain (v.). But the more usual noun in English has been remainder except in remains, euphemism for "corpse," attested from c. 1700, from mortal remains.

1. The price of oil should remain stable for the rest of 1992.: 油價會在1992年剩下的時間里保持穩定。

3. The $40 million-a-month aid payments will remain on ice.: 每月4,000萬美元的援助款項將繼續擱置下去。

4. Major questions remain to be answered about his work.: 關于他工作的許多重要問題仍然懸而未決。

5. In absolute terms British wages remain low by European standards.: 根據歐洲標準，英國工資的絕對值依然很低。