prompt是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 迅速的, 准时的; vt. 敦促; 怂恿，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：
-- McNabbs hesitated now no longer, but, acting on the advice of the rest, told his cousin that start they must, for all their lives depended on prompt action.
-- "No, on the east coast," was the prompt reply.
-- Still the prompt maneuver of John Mangles succeeded in keeping the MACQUARIE off the breakers.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There are seventy-five perfumes, which it is very necessary that a criminal expert should be able to distinguish from each other, and cases have more than once within my own experience de-pended upon their prompt recognition.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'll prompt anyone who forgets the rules!'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I tried him with some other questions, but his chattering, prompt responses were as often as not quite at cross purposes with my question.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The habits of its occupant were such as to demand but little from the sole domestic, but Phileas Fogg required him to be almost superhumanly prompt and regular.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But hardly had she so spoken, when she found her broth-er was civilly offering a seat in his carriage, if the weather were Mr. Elton's only objection, and Mr. Elton actually ac-cepting the offer with much prompt satisfaction.
-- It was the arrival of this very invitation while the Westons were at Hartfield, which made their presence so acceptable; for though her first remark, on reading it, was that 'of course it must be declined,' she so very soon proceeded to ask them what they advised her to do, that their advice for her going was most prompt and successful.
-- The idea of wanting gratitude and consideration for Miss Woodhouse, whom she really loved extremely, made her 324 Emmawretched for a while, and when the violence of grief was comforted away, still remained powerful enough to prompt to what was right and support her in it very tolerably.
-- Emma hoped it must rapidly work Harriet's cure; but the sensations which could prompt such behaviour sunk them both very much. It was not to be doubted that poor Harriet's attachment had been an offering to conjugal unreserve, and her own share in the story, under a colouring the least favourable to her and the most soothing to him, had in all likelihood been given also.
-- to which his prompt reply was, 'Most readily, Mrs. Weston, if you will dance with me.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a night when sorrow may come to the brightest without causing any great sense of incongruity: when, with impressible persons, love becomes solicitousness, hope sinks to misgiving, and faith to hope: when the exercise of memory does not stir feelings of regret at opportunities for ambition that have been passed by, and anticipation does not prompt to enterprise.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The moral sort of fellows might suppose that Mr. James Harthouse derived some comfortable reflections afterwards, from this prompt retreat, as one of his few actions that made any amends for anything, and as a token to himself that he had escaped the climax of a very bad business.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Heyward had too recently witnessed a frightful instance of the prompt punishments of the people into whose hands he had fallen to hazard an exposure by any officious boldness.
-- Then, turning with a prompt and decided air, he called aloud to his Indians, in their own language.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But modelled in the earth,' she retorted, with a prompt contradiction, that surprised her a little.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Machinery in MotionMr Meagles bestirred himself with such prompt activity in the matter of the negotiation with Daniel Doyce which Clennam had entrusted to him, that he soon brought it into business train, and called on Clennam at nine o'clock one morning to make his report.
-- If he had seen it by itself, under such conditions of gas-lamp, mist, and distance, he might not have known it at first sight, but with the figure of the girl to prompt him, he at once recognised Miss Wade.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He only remembered that she was young and poor, a girl far away from mother's love and fa-ther's care, and he was moved to help her with an impulse as quick and natural as that which would prompt him to put out his hand to save a baby from a puddle.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, as neither of these criminals answered to the name of Oliver, or knew anything about him, Nancy made straight up to the bluff officer in the striped waistcoat; and with the most piteous wailings and lamentations, rendered more piteous by a prompt and efficient use of the street-door key and the little basket, demanded her own dear brother.
-- The old gentleman was just going to say that Oliver should not go out on any account; when a most malicious cough from Mr. Grimwig determined him that he should; and that, by his prompt discharge of the commission, he should prove to him the injustice of his suspicions: on this head at least: at once.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquillity; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with folly and conceit in every other room of the house, he was used to be free from them there; his civility, therefore, was most prompt in inviting Mr. Collins to join his daughters in their walk; and Mr. Collins, being in fact much better fitted for a walker than a reader, was extremely pleased to close his large book, and go.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Answer up prompt now don't stop to study over it.
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