prompt book, passage, bowels

John Jensen writes in Education News: “The Myth of ‘Practice Makes Perfect’” is a misleading title of a Time/Opinion article by Annie Murphy Paul published earlier this year. I bring it up even several months later because the issue it addresses is important. Practice is the only means of developing skill in either physical actions or knowledge, so discarding it is not a good idea. The title implies that the very notion of “practice makes perfect” is a myth, is false, though the article does not imply this nor refer to any “myth.” We might guess that a copy editor in the bowels of Time Magazine chose it to broaden the article’s appeal beyond psychologists.

 

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狄更斯不僅是一位多產的寫作者，也是一位積極的表演者。他把公眾朗讀會（public readings）化作兩小時獨角戲劇表演，而「速書」（prompt books/prompt copies）則是他為此所作的準備記錄：在原作上划框，擇要而出，省去枝蔓，偶爾添點新笑話——對這位天才的表演者，人物表情記號是不需要的。狄氏朗讀 ／演劇會始於1853年12月，至其生命終了，十餘年間行腳遍及大西洋兩岸。「速書」是狄更斯為自己寫的舞台說明（stage directions），為狄更斯研究和後來的衍生戲劇／影視創作提供了鮮活的參照。^[1]

The prompt book, also called promptbook, transcript, or sometimes simply "the book," is the copy of a production script that contains the information necessary to create the production from the ground up. It is a compilation of all blocking, business, light, speech and sound cues, lists of properties, drawings of the set, contact information for the cast and crew, and any other information that might be necessary to help the production run smoothly.<sup>[1]


prompt</sup>adj., prompt·er, prompt·est.

1. Being on time; punctual.
2. Carried out or performed without delay: a prompt reply.

tr.v., prompt·ed, prompt·ing, prompts.

1. To move to act; spur; incite: A noise prompted the guard to go back and investigate.
2. To give rise to; inspire: The accident prompted a review of school safety policy.
3. To assist with a reminder; remind.
4. To assist (an actor or reciter) by providing the next words of a forgotten passage; cue.

n.

1. 1. The act of prompting or giving a cue.
   2. A reminder or cue.
2. Computer Science. A symbol that appears on a monitor to indicate that the computer is ready to receive input.
3. Business.
   1. A prompt note.
   2. The time limit stipulated in a prompt note.

[Middle English, ready, from Old French, from Latin prōmptus, from past participle of prōmere, to bring forth : prō-, forth; see pro-¹ + emere, to take, obtain.]

prompter prompt'er n.
promptitude promp'ti·tude' (prŏmp'tĭ-tūd', -tyūd') or prompt'ness (prŏmpt'nĭs) n.
promptly prompt'ly adv.

passage(păs'ĭj)
n.

1. The act or process of passing, especially:
   1. A movement from one place to another, as by going by, through, over, or across; transit or migration.
   2. The process of elapsing: the passage of time.
   3. The process of passing from one condition or stage to another; transition: the passage from childhood to adulthood.
   4. Enactment into law of a legislative measure.
2. A journey, especially one by air or water: a rough passage on the stormy sea.
3. The right to travel as a passenger, especially on a ship: book passage; pay for one's passage.
4. The right, permission, or power to come and go freely: Only medical supply trucks were granted safe passage through enemy territory.
5. 1. A path, channel, or duct through, over, or along which something may pass: the nasal passages.
   2. A corridor. See synonyms at way.
6. 1. An occurrence or event: "Another encouraging passage took place . . . when heads of state . . . took note of the extraneous factors affecting their economies that are beyond their control" (Helen Kitchen).
   2. Something, such as an exchange of words or blows, that occurs between two persons: a passage at arms.
7. 1. A segment of a written work or speech: a celebrated passage from Shakespeare.
   2. Music. A segment of a composition, especially one that demonstrates the virtuousity of the composer or performer: a passage of exquisite beauty, played to perfection.
   3. A section of a painting or other piece of artwork; a detail.
8. Physiology. An act of emptying, as of the bowels.
9. Biology. The process of passing or maintaining a group of microorganisms or cells through a series of hosts or cultures.
10. Obsolete. Death.

[Middle English, from Old French, from passer, to pass. See pass.]

bowel[bow・el]

• レベル：大学入試程度
• 発音記号[báuəl]
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[名]

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(1) ((通例〜s))腸, はらわた

the large ［the small］ bowels
大［小］腸

bind the bowels
下痢(げり)を止める

move ［empty, relieve］ one's bowels
排便する

loosen the bowels
通じをつくようにする

have loose bowels
下痢している.

(2) 腸の一部分.

2 ((〜s))((文))内部, 深部, 中心部

in the bowels of the earth
地中深くに.

get one's bowels in an uproar

((米略式))過度に心配［いらいら］する.

［古フランス語←後ラテン語botellus（botulusソーセージ＋-ellus指小辞＝小さなソーセージ）］

bow・el・less

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