William Shakespeare《Henry V》中有 “**We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; … We are but warriors for the working-day; our gayness and our gilt are all besmirch’d with rainy marching in the painful field; … and gentlemen in England now a-bed shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.**” 等语境里常出现 remnant 这一类“余部/残兵”的用法(不同版本措辞可能略有差异)。
Charles Dickens《A Tale of Two Cities》等作品中常见 remnant 用来表示“旧时代/旧制度的残余、残存痕迹”的表达(具体句子在不同版本中可能略有差异)。