She breathed heavily, and looked around as if for a prompter.
她喘着粗气,环顾四周,好像在寻找提示者。
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Nothing on the prompter is where this man eats.
他才不需要提词器。
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Combining as she did the zeal of the prompter with the impatience of the spectator, she had long since done her utmost to pull up the curtain.
结合提示者的热情和旁观者的不耐烦, 她早就竭尽全力拉起帷幕。
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It was a source of pleasure to surprise Master Ford with a greater day's work than was required, while, under subsequent masters, there was no prompter to extra effort but the overseer's lash.
The prompter (Fr., Ger. souffleur; It. rammentatore, suggeritore) in an opera house gives the singers the opening words of each phrase a few seconds early. Prompts are mouthed silently or hurled lyrically in a half-voice, audible (hopefully) only on stage. (This is in contrast to the prompt in a spoken-drama theater who aids actors who have forgotten their words or lines.)