0 a piece of paper on which a doctor writes the details of the medicine or drugs that someone needs -- 處方,藥方;處方上開的藥
a doctor's prescription 醫生的處方
a prescription for sedatives 鎮靜劑的處方
The doctor should give you a repeat prescription (= another piece of paper allowing more of the same medicine to be given, often without the person seeing the doctor again). 醫生應該給你開個重複處方。
These drugs are only available on prescription (= with a prescription from a doctor). 這些藥只能憑處方購買。
Prescription charges (= the standard amount of money you pay for any medicine prescribed by a doctor) are rising in June. 處方藥費將在六月份上漲。
1 the act of telling someone else what they must have or do -- 建議;秘訣
So what is his prescription for success? 那麼他認為成功的訣竅是甚麼?
I was given the wrong tablets when the chemist misread my prescription.
I got a prescription for some stronger painkillers.
I must take that prescription to the chemist.
When I bought my new glasses, they threw in a free pair of prescription sunglasses.
The prevalence of various symptoms and prescriptions for antibiotics and antiviral medications were also found to be independent of virus variant.
The probabilities here can be derived from statistical data on the relative frequency of prescriptions of drugs under given conditions.
Prescription of, or scope for, ceremonial usage was very largely (though not totally) expunged.