prescription
n
1 [C]
(a) doctor's written instruction for the composition and use of a medicine 处方; 药方
The doctor gave me a prescription for pain-killers. 医生给我开了个止痛药方.
(fig 比喻) His prescription for economic recovery was not well received. 他为使经济复苏提出的对策反应不佳.
(b) medicine prescribed in this way 处方上开的药
The chemist made a mistake when making up the prescription. 药剂师配错了药.
[attrib 作定语]
prescription charges, ie (in Britain) money to be paid by the patient for drugs supplied on the National Health Service 处方收费(在英国指病人为获得国民保健署所提供的药品而缴纳的费用).
2 [U] action of prescribing 开处方
The prescription of drugs is a doctor's responsibility. 开药方是医生的职责
If you do not let me have it, that will be a sign of weakness and no one will trust your laws any more.
要是您不准许我得到它,那将是一种软弱的表现,人们将不再信你们的法律了。
And because I was deaf, I could not learn to speak.
因为我耳聋,我不能学说话。
For his lifentime's work in studying the communication of animals, including honey bees, Professor Karl von Frisch was given a Nobel Prize in 1973, which he shared with two other scientists. He died in 1982.