新东方-柯林斯雅思备考词典

prescription

英  [prɪˈskrɪpʃən]
    

[NOUN]

    NOUN. 名词
  • prescriptions

    1[C 可数名词] 处方

    A prescription is the piece of paper on which your doctor writes an order for medicine and which you give to a pharmacist to get the medicine.

    双语例句

    例:

    The new drug will not require a doctor's prescription.

    这种新药不需要医生的处方。

    2[C 可数名词] 处方药

    A prescription is a medicine that a doctor has told you to take.

    双语例句

    例:

    I'm not sleeping even with the prescription Ackerman gave me.

    我服用了阿克曼开给我的处方药还是睡不着。

    3[C 可数名词] 方案

    A prescription is a proposal or a plan that gives ideas about how to solve a problem or improve a situation.

    双语例句

    例:

    There's not much difference in the economic prescriptions of Ireland's two main political parties.

    爱尔兰两大政党的经济方案没有多大差异。

    PHRASE. 习语
  • on prescription

    1凭处方

    If a medicine is available by or on prescription, you can only get it from a pharmacist if a doctor gives you a prescription for it.