prompting

Compared meaning: something that urges someone to act (noun).

比较义项：促使或提醒某人采取行动的话语／举动（名词）。

• prompt

  A countable noun for one specific cue or reminder that triggers a response, such as a gentle nudge or a line fed to an actor; it names a single instance, not an ongoing process.

  作为可数名词，指促使某人作出反应的某一个具体提示或提醒，例如给演员提词或轻声提醒某人；它指的是单一的一次提示，而不是持续的过程。

  A gentle prompt from her manager reminded her to finish the report on time.

  经理温和的提示提醒她要按时完成报告。

• prompting 本词

  An uncountable, gerund-form noun for the ongoing act of urging or encouraging someone, often through repeated reminders; common in set phrases like 'with prompting' or 'without prompting'.

  作为不可数的动名词形式，指持续督促或鼓励某人的行为，往往通过反复提醒来实现；常见于“with prompting”（经提示／催促后）或“without prompting”（无需催促）这样的固定搭配。

  After some prompting from his mother, the boy finally apologized to his sister.

  在母亲的再三督促下，男孩终于向妹妹道了歉。

Both words are about urging someone to act. Prompt is countable and means one specific cue or reminder that causes a response. Prompting is uncountable and means the ongoing act of urging or encouraging someone, often in phrases like 'with prompting' or 'without prompting'.

这两个词都表示促使某人行动的提示或督促，但语法和用法不同：prompt 是可数名词，指某一次具体的提示或提醒；prompting 是动名词形式的不可数名词，强调持续的督促、催促这一过程，常出现在 with/without prompting 这类固定搭配中。