promptly是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 敏捷地， 迅速地，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some half-dozen other particular friends promptly hauled him out, and presented him breathless to Monsieur the Marquis.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And the professor had promptly appeared to argue the matter out.
-- As he listened to his brother's argument with the professor, he noticed that they connected these scientific questions with those spiritual problems, that at times they almost touched on the latter; but every time they were close upon what seemed to him the chief point, they promptly beat a hasty retreat, and plunged again into a sea of subtle distinctions, reservations, quotations, allusions, and appeals to authorities, and it was with difficulty that he understood what they were talking about.
-- "I was meaning to come and see you," he said; and then, recollecting with what intention he was trying to see her, he was promptly overcome with confusion and blushed.
-- said Levin, and he promptly ran up to the top to do this new trick.
-- he called, and he went into the next room where he promptly came across and aide-de- camp of his acquaintance and dropped into conversation with him about an actress and her protector.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Fogg, after bidding good-bye to his whist partners, left the steamer, gave his servant several errands to do, urged it upon him to be at the station promptly at eight, and, with his regular step, which beat to the second, like an astronomical clock, directed his steps to the passport office.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He endured anguish at that moment, and if it had been possible to slay Raskolnikov instantly by wishing it, Pyotr Petrovitch would promptly have uttered the wish.
-- He promptly put himself at Katerina Ivanovna's disposal and had been all that morning and all the day be-fore running about as fast as his legs could carry him, and very anxious that everyone should be aware of it.
-- Rushing to the conclusion 536 Crime and Punishmentthat Amalia Ivanovna must be responsible for those who were absent, she began treating her with extreme noncha-lance, which the latter promptly observed and resented.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr.Micawber promptly resumed his letter, glad to revert to aperformance with which he was so highly satisfied.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This person's public appearance in Weatherbury promptly followed his arrival there.
-- A light was promptly struck upon his gaiters as before, and the examination made.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 莽卢卢19 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 The cat fled, but promptly returned to rub against her ankles.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When Joe went home at five minutes before ten, he found her struck down on the floor, and promptly called in assistance.
-- As a necessary sequence, I asked him if he would favor us with his company, and he promptly accepted the invitation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Clennam remained until everything possible to be done had been skilfully and promptly done the poor belated wanderer in a strange land movingly besought that favour of him and lingered by the bed to which he was in due time removed, until he had fallen into a doze.
-- 'I am so sure of it that I have promptly made up my mind to speak to you.'
-- They believed that foreigners were dragooned and bayoneted; and though they certainly got their own skulls promptly fractured if they showed any ill-humour, still it was with a blunt instrument, and that didn't count.
-- He promptly replied in French, 'No.
-- Physician's knock astonished Bar; but, as he immediately suspected that somebody had come to tell him that somebody else was robbing him, or otherwise trying to get the better of him, he came down promptly and softly.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mary Kinglsey insisted on lending her her watch till recess, and Jenny Snow, a satirical young lady, who had basely twitted Amy upon her limeless state, promptly buried the hatchet and offered to furnish answers to certain appalling sums.
-- 'To hear is to obey, but March is fairer far than May,' said little Parker, making a frantic effort to be both witty and tender, and getting promptly quenched by Laurie, who said... 'Very well, my son, for a small boy!'
-- The letter went very soon, however, and was promptly answered, for Amy was homesick, and confessed it in the most delightfully confiding manner.
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