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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)。 |