0 a piece of paper on which a doctor writes the details of the medicine or drugs that someone needs -- 处方，药方；处方上开的药
a doctor's prescription 医生的处方
a prescription for sedatives 镇静剂的处方
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). 医生应该给你开个重复处方。
These drugs are only available on prescription (= with a prescription from a doctor). 这些药只能凭处方购买。
Prescription charges (= the standard amount of money you pay for any medicine prescribed by a doctor) are rising in June. 处方药费将在6月份上涨。
1 the act of telling someone else what they must have or do -- 建议；秘诀
So what is his prescription for success? 那么他认为成功的诀窍是什么？
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.
