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prompter

/promp-ter/US // ˈprɒmp tər //UK // (ˈprɒmptə) //

提示者,提示员,提示器,提示符

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person or thing that prompts.
    • : Theater. a person who is offstage and follows a play in progress from the book, repeating missed cues and supplying actors with forgotten lines.
    • : an electronic or mechanical device for prompting a speaker or performer.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.early, responsive

Examples

  • When you were standing there and realized the wrong speech was in the prompter, what was going through your mind?

  • On that note, Michael, reading the prompter again in March said, “I will sing all the songs my fans want to hear.”

  • "She ought to marry the prompter or the box-keeper," said Nash.

  • The effect is as unpleasant as that which is produced on the stage by the voice of a prompter or the entrance of a scene-shifter.

  • He forgot what he had to say, and looked appealingly to the prompter, who prompted rather too loudly.

  • Maybe Mrs. Blythe would station her there somewhere as prompter, for fear that she might forget her speech.

  • Three times three they gave it without the need of a prompter.