资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Remainm \Re*main"m\ n.
   1. State of remaining; stay. [Obs.]

            Which often, since my here remain in England, I 've
            seen him do.                          --Shak.

   2. That which is left; relic; remainder; -- chiefly in the
      plural. ``The remains of old Rome.'' --Addison.

            When this remain of horror has entirely subsided.
                                                  --Burke.

   3. Specif., in the plural:
      (a) That which is left of a human being after the life is
          gone; relics; a dead body.

                Old warriors whose adored remains In weeping
                vaults her hallowed earth contains! --Pope.
      (b) The posthumous works or productions, esp. literary
          works, of one who is dead; as, Cecil's Remains.