Prompt

(noun.) (computer science) a symbol that appears on the computer screen to indicate that the computer is ready to receive a command.

(noun.) a cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken); 'the audience could hear his prompting'.

(verb.) serve as the inciting cause of; 'She prompted me to call my relatives'.

(verb.) assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned.

(adj.) according to schedule or without delay; on time; 'the train is prompt' .

(adj.) ready and willing or quick to act; 'she is always prompt to help her friends'; .

校对:莫利

• But now, at hunting and hawking, and each idle sport of wood and river, who so prompt as the Templars in all these fond vanities? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Except for his prompt pursuit, so much in this way would not have been accomplished. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Matthew, sceptic and scoffer, had already failed to subscribe a prompt belief in that pain about the heart. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I received a prompt letter in reply decidedly disapproving my proposition, and urging that the lad should be allowed to accompany me. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• If they do not themselves find it out, I see no reason why I should prompt them to take a broader point of view. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage may mean a complete change in her life and habits. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• That the oldest had still hopes of living one day longer, and looked on death as the greatest evil, from which nature always prompted him to retreat. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• All the other enterprizes of the Spaniards in the New World, subsequent to those of Columbus, seem to have been prompted by the same motive. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The beneficent effect of their activities on the health and general welfare of the masses of the people bears witness to the sanity and worth of the culture th at prompted these activities. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• So, though I admire your genius and the spirit which prompted you to invent so excellent a machine, we shan’t require it here. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The excellent and considerate feelings which prompted Mr. Winkle to take this step can never be too highly appreciated or too warmly extolled. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• You need not be prompted to write with the appearance of sorrow for his disappointment. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• In the latter case, you would expect that some prompting from outside would be needed to make so young a lad do such a thing. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• These words are written under no prompting of idle self-contemplation. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• If he has had no visitors, that prompting must have come in letters; hence I try to find out who were his correspondents. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• More prompting was necessary. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• In any other man I should have thought that the prompting of a magnanimous and noble character. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• With much embarrassment and some prompting I made out to announce the object of the meeting. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• It fits like a circus tent, and a woman's head is hidden away in it like the man's who prompts the singers from his tin shed in the stage of an opera. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It is what prompts children to say smart things, and do absurd ones, and in other ways show off when company is present. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• And that you undertook to do what you might have done by this time, if you had made a prompter use of circumstances,' snarled Lammle. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• You were our audience and prompter. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• It seems there is a little hole on the stage with a hood over it, in which the prompter sits when opera is given. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• In this instance it was not occupied, and I was given the position in the prompter's seat, and saw the whole ballet at close range. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

校对:凯尔西