prescribe
/prɪˈskraɪb/verb
with obj.
1- (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生素。
1.1
- 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。
1.2
- 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。
1.3
- as adj. prescribed doing things in the prescribed manner按规定行事的。
USAGE
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 antibiotics. Proscribe, on the other hand， is a formal word meaning 'condemn or forbid'， as in gambling was strictly proscribed by the authorities.
派生词
prescriber
noun词源
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'.