emain stay
都指“继续停留”或“继续保持某种状态、关系或行动.”remain 常可与stay 互换.
1.表示“继续呆在某处”时,应该用不及物动词remain或stay,例如:
Shall I go or stay?
Stay indoors for a few days until you recover from your cold.
He remained in his seat after all the other students had gone home.
2.表示“继续保持或处于原来的状态”时,可用remain或stay,例如:
Three of them remained single.Shops should remain open till later in the evening.
The door stayed closed.But the police themselves prefer to stay unarmed.
3.表示“暂住、短期停留”时,只能用不及物动词stay.例如:
He is staying at Hilton Hotel.
My mother-in-law stayed with us this week when she visited us.
4.表示“残留、剩下”时,只能用不及物动词remain,例如:
Not much of the house remained after the fire.
Of the seven brothers,only four now remain; the rest are dead.
5 remain 强调“继续停留于一处或保持原状态、情况性质而不改变”,stay强调“某人[物]继续留在原地而不离开”,如:
This place remains cool all summer.
这个地方整个夏天都凉爽.
He stayed to see the end of the game.
他一直呆到比赛结束.
1.Keep 相当于 be 动词 ,后跟adj,表示维持一种状态,比如:keep calm
keep 还可以跟n.表示保留收藏什么东西,比如:keep this book
而 stay 后跟 副词,介词短语情况比较多.比如stay here,stay overnight
2.stay、remain和keep辨析 1.表示“继续呆在某处”时,应该用不及物动词remain或stay,例如:Shall I go or stay?Stay indoors for a few days until you recover from your cold.He remained in his seat after all the other students had gone home.2.表示“暂住、短期停留”时,只能用不及物动词stay.例如:He is staying at Hilton Hotel.My mother-in-law stayed with us this week when she visited us.3.表示“残留、剩下”时,只能用不及物动词remain,例如:Not much of the house remained after the fire.Of the seven brothers,only four now remain; the rest are dead.4.表示“继续保持或处于某种状态”时,应视具体情况在上述动词中进行选择:(1)表示“继续保持或处于原来的状态”时,可用remain或stay,例如:Three of them remained single.Shops should remain open till later in the evening.The door stayed closed.But the police themselves prefer to stay unarmed.(2)表示“需要设法才能保持或处于某种状态”时,应用keep,例如:She knew she must keep calm.I wish those children would keep quiet.Although they have many difficulties,they keep happy.Paul managed to keep awake by drinking lots of strong black coffee.(3)表示“使某人或某物保持某种状态”时,只能用及物动词keep,例如:She had kept him waiting twenty minutes on this occasion.Why do you always keep your windows closed?