prescription
/prɪˈskrɪpʃən/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这种药剂凭处方购买
as modifier prescription drugs.处方药。
1.1
- mass noun the action of prescribing a medicine or treatment开处方, 开药方：
the unnecessary prescription of antibiotics.
无必要开的抗生素。
1.2
- 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。
2.1
- 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】取得的时效（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）。
词源
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.