英 [prɪˈskraɪbd] 美 [prɪˈskraɪbd]
v. 给……开（药），让……采用（疗法）；开处方；规定，命令（prescribe 的过去式和过去分词）
prescribe /prɪˈskraɪb/ CET4 TEM4 [ prescribing prescribed prescribes ]
及物动词 If a doctor prescribes medicine or treatment for you, he or she tells you what medicine or treatment to have. 开 (药、处方)
The physician examines the patient then diagnoses the disease and prescribes medication.
内科医生检查了病人，然后对疾病作出诊断，并开出药方。
She took twice the prescribed dose of sleeping tablets.
她服用了所开剂量两倍的安眠药。
及物动词 If a person or set of laws or rules prescribes an action or duty, they state that it must be carried out. 规定
...article II of the constitution, which prescribes the method of electing a president.
…规定总统选举办法的宪法第二条。
(通过长期占有等而)要求(权利等)；(因过期限而)失效，不合法：
使(过期限而)失效(或不合法)
... Preload预紧力 Prescribed规定的，指定的 Pricker探针，锥子 ...
... pool mark 总分 prescribed (periods) 指定的 primary (visa applicant) 主申请人 ...
... coefficients 系数 prescribed 预先设定的 invariant 不变的 ...
规定的
specified / stated / regulation / set / stipulated
Valium is usually prescribed to treat anxiety.
安定剂通常用于治疗焦躁。
She took twice the prescribed dose of sleeping tablets.
她服用了所开剂量两倍的安眠药。
The prescribed form must be completed and returned to this office.
必须把指定的表格填好并交回本办事处。
Anyone who has ever had to recover from surgery or a serious injury was probably grateful for the powerful narcotics doctors prescribed to help ease the pain.
VOA : standard.2010.05.04
You can't go to school in this country, and in many countries, until you've had your prescribed set of vaccinations.
在我国,接种规定的疫苗之前,许多国家也一样,你都不能去上学
生物医学工程探索课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
One of the things we are taught is a verse of Koran, in English it's as "all you who believe, fasting has been prescribed for you as was prescribed for those before you."
在《可兰经》里有一句诗是，大意是，虔诚的人们啊，斋戒不仅是你需要做的,也是你的前人所需要做的“
人性课程节选 : 普林斯顿公开课
They're prescribed to increase bone density and prevent fractures.
VOA : standard.2010.03.14
Activists are also encouraging IMF and World Bank leaders not to link new funds to austerity measures normally prescribed for borrowers, like cuts in public spending and an increase in interest rates.
VOA : standard.2009.04.20
Penalties for kidnapping, theft and white-collar crime were also toughened, with longer jail terms prescribed.
Both over-the-counter antihistamines and prescribed epinephrine auto-injectors have an expiration date, after which their effectiveness diminishes.
Can a portion of guilt be shared by the shrink who prescribed the pills?
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