prescription

prescription
noun
  1. an instruction written by a medical practitioner that authorizes a patient to be issued with a medicine or treatment
    处方，药方
    he scribbled a prescription for tranquillizers.
    他草草地开了张镇定剂药方。
    [mass noun]the lotion is available on prescription.
    凭药方，这种药液是可以得到的。
    [as modifier]prescription drugs.
    处方药。
    ■[mass noun]the action of prescribing a medicine or treatment
    开处方，开药方
    the unnecessary prescription of antibiotics.
    无必要开的抗菌素。
    ■a medicine or remedy that is prescribed
    处方药
    I've got to pick up my prescription from the chemist's.
    我得到药房取药。
  2. a recommendation that is authoritatively put forward
    权威推荐
    effective prescriptions for sustaining rural communities.
    维持乡村社区的有效权威推荐。
    ■[mass noun]the authoritative recommendation of an action or procedure
    规定；指定
    rather than prescription there would be guidance.
    与其规定，不如引导。
  3. (亦作 positive prescription)(Law)the establishment of a claim founded on the basis of a long or indefinite period of uninterrupted use or of long-standing custom
    (律)取得时效（根据长期或不确定时期持续使用或以长期习惯为基础确立的要求权）
语源
  1. late Middle English (as a legal term): via Old French from Latin praescriptio(n-), from the verb praescribere (see prescribe). Sense 1 dates from the late 16th cent
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