prescribe

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pre·scribe /prɪˈskraɪb/ verb [transitiveT]

1 MDto say what medicine or treatment a sick person should have 开〔药〕给…开处方 → prescription

prescribe somebody something

If these don’t work I may have to prescribe you something stronger.

如果这些药无效，我也许得给你开一些药效更强的。

prescribe something for something

the drugs prescribed for his stomach pains

开给他治疗胃痛的药物

2 TELL/ORDER somebody TO DO something formal to state officially what should be done in a particular situation 规定，指定

What punishment does the law prescribe for this crime?

法律规定这种罪行应受何处罚？

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prescribe• Four years is the minimum jail sentence that federal law prescribes.• What it does not do, of course, is to prescribe an appropriate style of professional practice.• Agreement developed that diagnosis should not result in mere labeling but should be used to prescribe appropriate treatment.• The clinic responded with two more alarm clocks before prescribing drugs.• The same applied if antibiotics were prescribed, or a referral to a specialty, usually orthopaedics, was required.• Therefore, I initiate disulfiram treatment by prescribing the drug for the patient to self-administer.• It may prescribe the manner of their exercise, but it can not subvert the rights themselves...• But some doctors have a history of abusing that trust for profit, prescribing unnecessary and ineffective diet regimes to all comers.• We will introduce powers for nurses to prescribe where appropriate.

Origin prescribe

(1400-1500) Latin praescribere “to write at the beginning, order”

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