remain 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.