prescribe的名詞是prescription。該詞主要有以下幾種意思。
(1)an official piece of paper on which a doctor writes the type of medicine you should have, and which neighbors you'd get it from a chemist's shop or drugstore處方,藥方
例如:The doctor gave me a prescription for antibiotics.
醫生給我開了抗生素。
(2)medicine that your doctor has ordered for you醫生開的藥
例如:The pharmacist will make up your prescription.
醫藥技師會給你依處方配藥。
(3)the act of prescribing medicine開處方,開藥
例如:The prescription of drugs is a doctor's responsibility.
開藥是醫生的責任。
(4)a plan or suggestion for making something happen or for improving it計劃,建議,祕訣
例如:a prescription for happiness
增進幸福的祕訣