| 释义 |
prescriptionn.
1. direction of a remedy; advice处方；（转义）劝告。
△H.VIII.1.1.150: “I am thankful to you,and I’ll goalong / By your prescription；”我很感谢你，我定要按照你的劝告行事。
2. legal right based on long custom因年代久远的习惯而形成的合法权利。
△3H.VI.3.3.92:“you tell a pedigree /Of threescore and two years —a silly time / To makeprescription for a kingdom’s worth.”i.e.you recounta line of descent which runs for sixty-two years — atrifling period of time to base a legal right of thewealth of an entire kingdom. 你列举出六十二年的谱系——这对于要求享有一个王国财富的合法权利来说，只能算是一小段微不足道的时间。
3. ❶prescriptive right,right based on long tradition,perfect right约定俗成的权利，毋庸置疑的权利。
❷doctor’sprescription医生的处方。
△Oth.1.3. 310 (308): “It issilliness to live,when to live is torment; and thenhave we a prescription to die when death is our physi-cian.”既然活着是受罪，还要活着才是愚蠢；死亡是我们的医生，我们就按方去死吧(双关：死就是我们惟一的权利了)。 |