prescribe

1. V-T If a doctor prescribes medicine or treatment for you, he or she tells you what medicine or treatment to have. 開 (藥、處方)

The physician examines the patient then diagnoses the disease and prescribes medication. 內(nèi)科醫(yī)生檢查了病人，然后對疾病作出診斷，并開出藥方。

She took twice the prescribed dose of sleeping tablets. 她服用了所開劑量兩倍的安眠藥。

2. V-T If a person or set of laws or rules prescribes an action or duty, they state that it must be carried out. 規(guī)定[正式]

...article II of the constitution, which prescribes the method of electing a president. …規(guī)定總統(tǒng)選舉辦法的憲法第二條。