prescribe

prescribe
verb
  1. [with obj.](of a medical practitioner) advise and authorize the use of (a medicine or treatment) for someone, especially in writing
    （医生）开（药）；为…开处方
    Dr Greene prescribed magnesium sulphate.
    格林医生开的药是硫酸镁。
    [with two objs]he was prescribed a course of antibiotics.
    医生为他开了一个疗程的抗菌素。
    ■recommend (a substance or action) as something beneficial
    推荐，推举
    marriage is often prescribed as a universal remedy.
    婚姻常被当作包治百病的良方。
    ■state authoritatively or as a rule that (an action or procedure) should be carried out
    规定；指定
    rules prescribing five acts for a play are purely arbitrary.
    一出戏分为五幕的规则纯粹是任意规定的。
    ■[as adj. prescribed]doing things in the prescribed manner
    按规定行事的
派生
prescriber
noun
语源
  1. late Middle English (in the sense 'confine within bounds', also as a legal term meaning 'claim by prescription'): from Latin praescribere 'direct in writing', from prae 'before' + scribere 'write'
用法
  1. The verbs prescribe and proscribe do not have the same meaning. Prescribe is a much commoner word (occurring around 15 times more often than proscribe in the British National Corpus) and means either ‘issue a medical prescription’ or ‘recommend with authority’, as in the doctor prescribed antibioticsProscribe, on the other hand, is a formal word meaning ‘condemn or forbid’, as in gambling was strictly proscribed by the authorities
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