prescribe

He may be able to prescribe you something for that cough.

他也许能给你开一些咳嗽药。

By prescribing nutritional changes, they are trying to prevent, limit or even reverse disease by changing what patients eat.

通过改变处方中的营养成分，他们试图通过改变患者的饮食习惯来预防、限制甚至逆转疾病的发生。

Physicians who have been on the job for several hours, for example, are more likely to prescribe antibiotics to patients when it's unwise to do so.

例如，工作了几个小时的医生更有可能草率地给病人开出抗生素。

Police regulations prescribe that an officer's number must be clearly visible.

警政制度规定，警察的番号必须醒目。

The reason for these and countless other patterns of social behavior is that they are controlled by social norms—shared rules or guidelines which prescribe the behavior that is appropriate in a given situation..

产生这些以及无数其他社会行为模式的原因是：它们受到了社会规范的约束——对特定情况下适当行为作出规范的通用规则或指导方针。

In their words, marriage is prescribed as a good remedy.

在他们口中，婚姻成为了治病良方。