Much like — yesno, you provide some text to prompt the user.

非常像——yesno，您提供一些文本来提示用户。

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LoginModules may be used to prompt the user for a userid and password.

LoginModules可以用于提示用户输入用户标识和密码。

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A processor should prompt the user with the list of alternate style sheets.

处理器应该用备用样式表列表提示用户。

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So when you have a function called GetString, -- that means it's going to get a string from the user -- -- prompt the user for a string -- whereas printf is literally going to print it, not to paper, but to the screen.

所以当你有一个叫做GetSting的函数，它的意思是从用户那获得一个字符串-,提示用户输入一个字符串-,然而printf的确是用来打印的，不是在纸上，而是在屏幕上。

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I mean what if you're running so many things, what if the user has copied and pasted their thesis and just pasted it at the blinking prompt such that you're now out of memory because your computer is somewhat limited in memory so get string cannot possibly return all those characters or fit all of those characters in memory and return to you the address of the first.

如果你运行了很多程序，假使用户复制粘贴了他们的论文,只是粘贴在光标提示符那里,这样就出现了内存不足,因为你们的计算机的内存是有限的,所以GetString不可能返回所有的字符,或者保存这些字符到内存中,并且返回第一个字符的地址。

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This API is independent from the request access API and will not prompt the user to grant or deny access.

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If a person clicked on the ad, it would prompt the user to download or use the Expedia app to book the transaction.

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And if you look at the gradual addition of features to Instagram that Krieger describes you will find that they all answer these type of questions: will this prompt the user to take or share more pictures, will it make the process easier or faster, will it be more fun and fulfilling for the user and their friends?

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