核心畫面
Picture someone with the authority to say what shall be done, writing it down: the doctor naming the medicine, the rule naming the procedure. It is not advice you may weigh up — the person writing it has the standing to settle the matter.
可以想成：一個有權決定的人把「該怎麼做」寫下來——醫生寫下該吃什麼藥，法規寫下該照什麼程序走。它跟建議不同：建議可以…更多收起
可以想成：一個有權決定的人把「該怎麼做」寫下來——醫生寫下該吃什麼藥，法規寫下該照什麼程序走。它跟建議不同：建議可以參考，prescribe 出來的東西是由有資格的人定下來的。抓住「有權的人指定」這一點，兩個用法就同一個畫面了。原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
prescribeverb/pɹɪˈskɹaɪb/
- 1
medicinesciencesTo order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient (under licensed authority).
- The doctor prescribed aspirin.
- And most neurologists are in the habit of prescribing antispasticity drugs like tizanidine and baclofen, which are oral and inexpensive, but which cause drowsiness and weaken every muscle in the body, not just the target ones.
- 2
To specify by writing as a required procedure or ritual; to lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action.
- The property meets the criteria prescribed by the regulations.
- Prescribe not us our duties.
- 3
lawTo develop or assert a right; to make a claim (by prescription).
- Most probable that one presentation and 40 years possession thereafter, is sufficient to prescribe a right of patronage.
- […] held, in a question with a party who had acquired right from the commissioners of the forfeited estates to the estate of the forfeited superior, as it stood in his person, that the crown charter of the vassal was a valid title on which to prescribe a right to the coal […]
- 4
lawTo become invalidated or unenforceable by prescription, to lapse
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。