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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, the host was bowing to a short, energetic-looking man with large moustaches, and saying in a low voice:"Herr Professor, darf ich vorstellen "The Herr Professor was prompt and energetic.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gideon Spilett ranked among the first of those reporters: a man of great merit, energetic, prompt and ready for anything, full of ideas, having traveled over the whole world, soldier and artist, enthusiastic in council, resolute in action, caring neither for trouble, fatigue, nor danger, when in pursuit of information, for himself first, and then for his journal, a perfect treasury of knowledge on all sorts of curious subjects, of the unpublished, of the unknown, and of the impossible.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What is necessary is solicitude on the one hand, and prompt and vigorous dealing on the other," he said, clenching his soft, white fist projecting from under a white, starched cuff and adorned with a turquoise ring--"solicitude and vigorous dealing."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But with this recovery of a prompt retreat my courage recovered.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was prompt with my answer, however, for I saw where my advantage lay and that with a fellow so densely stupid I could easily conceal my suspicions to the end.
-- I think I was a good, prompt subaltern, and I am very sure that Hands was an excellent pilot, for we went about and about and dodged in, shaving the banks, with a certainty and a neatness that were a pleasure to behold.
-- And there was Silver, sitting back almost out of the firelight, but eating heartily, prompt to spring forward when anything was wanted, even joining quietly in our laughter the same bland, polite, obsequious seaman of the voyage out.
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