recipe: [14] Recipe originated as the imperative form of Latin recipere ‘receive, take’ (source of English receive). It was commonly used in Latin, and occasionally English, lists of ingredients for medicines and dishes (as in ‘Take three eggs …’), and by the end of the 16th century it was being applied to the medical formulae themselves. Its modern gastronomic sense did not emerge until the mid-18th century. => receive
recipe (n.)
1580s, "medical prescription," from Middle French récipé (15c.), from Latin recipe "take!," second person imperative singular of recipere "to take" (see receive); word written by physicians at the head of prescriptions. Figurative use from 1640s. Meaning "instructions for preparing food" first recorded 1743. The original sense survives only in the pharmacist's abbreviation Rx.
雙語例句
1. Each recipe specifies the size of egg to be used.
每種菜譜都具體規定了所用雞蛋的大小。
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2. The following recipe is a statement of another kind—food is fun!
下面的食譜是另一種觀點的表現——食物可以帶來樂趣！
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3. Although this recipe looks long, it is actually very quick to prepare.
盡管這個菜譜看上去很長，其實做起來很快。
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4. This recipe was given to me years ago by a farmer's wife.
這份食譜是一位農民的妻子幾年前給我的。
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5. That's a sure recipe for destroying the economy and creating chaos.