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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was an accident that needed to be promptly repaired.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Colia promptly banged the door in their faces and locked it.
-- Some were there when he bought it, and he was so charmed with the effect that he promptly added to their number.
-- The general promptly made his escape, and Lizabetha Prokofievna after a while grew calm again.
-- Lebedeff ran up promptly to explain the arrival of all these gentlemen.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he cried to Henfrey as he passed the prostrate Huxter, and, coming round the corner to join the tumult, was promptly knocked off his feet into an indecorous sprawl.
-- Directly each of these young people had done, he or she made promptly for the door with such an expression of animation as I have rarely observed in a shop assistant before.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then we would talk of agents and the offers they had obtained for us; of editors and the sort of contributions they welcomed, how much they paid a thousand, and whether they paid promptly or otherwise.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The question of a more comfortable dwelling than the Chimneys must therefore be seriously considered and promptly resolved on.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having, as it were, taken formal possession of his clerkship in virtue of these proceedings, he opened the window and leaned negligently out of it until a beer-boy happened to pass, whom he commanded to set down his tray and to serve him with a pint of mild porter, which he drank upon the spot and promptly paid for, with the view of breaking ground for a system of future credit and opening a correspondence tending thereto, without loss of time.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "She could have killed him even with the opium," retorted the colonel, who liked to make digressions, and he began to relate the case of his brother-in-law's wife, who had been poisoned by opium and would have died had not antidotes promptly been administered by a physician who happened to be in the neighborhood.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Promptly afterwards, fresh sounds of astonishment arose; the window of the captain's room was thrown open with a slam and a jingle of broken glass, and a man leaned out into the moonlight, head and shoulders, and addressed the blind beggar on the road below him.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ursula promptly sat down in the middle of the market-place.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Do you think the archangel Gabriel thinks anything the less of me, because I promptly and respectfully obey that old hunks in that particular instance?
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The girl so addressed rose promptly and gave Carrie her place.
-- Each evening he arrived promptly to dinner, and found the little dining-room a most inviting spectacle.
-- On the morrow Carrie reported promptly and was given a place in the line.
-- Police hustled him along, restaurant and lodginghouse keepers turned him out promptly the moment he had his due; pedestrians waved him off.
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