prescription /prɪˈskrɪpʃən/ star2 CET6 TEM4 (prescriptions)

• 1.  

  N-COUNT（可数名词） 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. 处方

  例：

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

  这种新药不需要医生的处方。

• 2.  

  N-COUNT（可数名词） A prescription is a medicine that a doctor has told you to take. 处方药

  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.  

  PHRASE（习语） 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. 凭处方
• 4.  

  N-COUNT（可数名词） A prescription is a proposal or a plan that gives ideas about how to solve a problem or improve a situation. 方案

  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。