remainders

英 [rɪˈmeɪndəz]

美 [rɪˈmeɪndərz]

n.  其他人员; 剩余物; 剩余时间; 差数; 余数; 廉价出售的图书; 滞销图书
v.  廉价出售(书)
remainder的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• QUANT 剩余部分;剩余物;余下的人(或物)
  The remainder ofa group are the things or people that still remain after the other things or people have gone or have been dealt with.
  1. He gulped down the remainder of his coffee...
     他把剩下的咖啡一口气喝了下去。
  2. I spent the remainder of the day feeling terrible.
     我那天余下的时间里心情都很糟糕。
  3. Remainderis also a pronoun.
     
  4. Only 5.9 per cent of the area is now covered in trees. Most of the remainder is farmland...
     这个地区的树木覆盖率只有5.9%。其他多数地方都是农田。
  5. Of the 59 committee members, 40 were against legalisation, 13 were in favour and the remainder were undecided.
     在59个委员会委员中，有40人反对这项法案，13人赞成，其余的尚未表明态度。
• (算术中的)余数
  In arithmetic,the remainderis the amount that remains when one amount cannot be exactly divided by another. For example, if you divide 22 by 7, the answer is 3 and the remainder is 1.
• VERB (因为滞销而)廉价出售（图书）
  If a bookis remaindered, it is sold at a reduced price because it has not been selling very well and will not be published again.
  1. It failed to sell and was soon remaindered.
     此书销量不好，很快就被廉价处理了。
• 廉价销售的书
  Aremainderis a book that has been remaindered.

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