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Prescribe or proscribe?

Prescribe means to order or recommend something: a doctor prescribes a drug, a rule prescribes a procedure. Proscribe means the opposite: to forbid or ban. The two differ by one letter and mean roughly opposite things, so context alone will not save you.

用哪個詞,為什麼

prescribe

order or lay down what must be done

To recommend a treatment, or to state officially what should happen.

prescribe antibiotics · the procedure prescribed by law · prescribed reading

proscribeformal

forbid or ban

To prohibit something officially.

a proscribed organisation · proscribed by law

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本頁 5 題。除了你自己的帳戶,任何地方都不保存。

練習和講解都是英語。這是刻意的:重點在於用你正在學的語言思考。

第 1 題,共 5 題

The GP   a two-week course and told him to rest.

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