| 釋義 |
prescriptionn.
1. direction of a remedy; advice處方；（轉義）勸告。
△H.VIII.1.1.150: “I am thankful to you,and I’ll goalong / By your prescription；”我很感謝你，我定要按照你的勸告行事。
2. legal right based on long custom因年代久遠的習慣而形成的合法權利。
△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. 你列舉出六十二年的譜系——這對于要求享有一個王國財富的合法權利來說，只能算是一小段微不足道的時間。
3. ?prescriptive right,right based on long tradition,perfect right約定俗成的權利，毋庸置疑的權利。
?doctor’sprescription醫(yī)生的處方。
△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.”既然活著是受罪，還要活著才是愚蠢；死亡是我們的醫(yī)生，我們就按方去死吧(雙關：死就是我們惟一的權利了)。 |