medications
medications — 名詞
- medicationssingular
- medicationsesplural
1. substances that a doctor gives you to treat or control a disease, injury, or hea
藥物
治療或控制疾病的藥品
substances that a doctor gives you to treat or control a disease, injury, or health problem
Takeshi forgot to pack his medications when he flew to Hokkaido for the conference.
Takeshi 去北海道開會時忘記打包他的藥物。
collocation: pack + medications
The doctor told Folake to take her medications every evening after dinner.
醫生囑咐 Folake 每天晚餐後服用她的藥物。
collocation: take + medications (prescribed routine)
Bao keeps a list of his medications in the kitchen drawer for emergencies.
Bao 在廚房抽屜裡放了一份藥物清單，以備緊急使用。
Every Sunday, Romi sorts the medications into a weekly pill box for a neighbor.
每個星期日，Romi 把藥物分裝到一週的藥盒裡給鄰居。
Before surgery, the nurse checked whether Anjali had taken her medications that morning.
手術前，護士確認了 Anjali 當天早上是否已經服用過藥物。
- medicine
more general term; 'medicine' can be uncountable (the field of study) whereas 'medications' usually refers to specific substances
- drug
broader term that includes both medicinal and recreational substances; 'drug' may carry negative connotations in casual speech
- prescription
refers specifically to medicines ordered by a doctor; 'prescription' can also mean the written order itself rather than the substance
- remedy
often implies a natural or traditional treatment rather than a modern pharmaceutical drug
文法句型
medications + for [condition]
take + medications
be on + medications
用法筆記
Distinguish from singular 'medication': the plural 'medications' is typically used when referring to several different medicines a person is taking at the same time, while the singular can mean either one medicine or the general concept of drug treatment.