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soft drug vs unprescribed drug

Chinese translation: 慢性毒品/药品 vs 非处方药


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12:10 Nov 21, 2011
English to Chinese translations [PRO]
Automotive / Cars & Trucks / terms about driving theory
English term or phrase: soft drug vs unprescribed drug
How to distinguish these two terms please?
liwei zhu
Local time: 23:56
Chinese translation:慢性毒品/药品 vs 非处方药
Explanation:
The two are medical terms other than automotive ones.
Soft drug is a drug of abuse that is considered relatively mild and not likely to cause addiction(http://www.thefreedictionary.com/soft drug)
According to explanations in Wiki, it shall be 慢性麻醉药品/毒品(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_and_soft_drugs).

Unprescribed drug which is contradicted to prescribed drug, means drugs that are not prescribed by a doctor, which may translated as 非处方药.
(Examples can be found here at NIH: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21655716)
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Liping Deng
Local time: 06:56
Grading comment
Many thanks.



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5 +1慢性毒品/药品 vs 非处方药
Liping Deng


  

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慢性毒品/药品 vs 非处方药


Explanation:
The two are medical terms other than automotive ones.
Soft drug is a drug of abuse that is considered relatively mild and not likely to cause addiction(http://www.thefreedictionary.com/soft drug)
According to explanations in Wiki, it shall be 慢性麻醉药品/毒品(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_and_soft_drugs).

Unprescribed drug which is contradicted to prescribed drug, means drugs that are not prescribed by a doctor, which may translated as 非处方药.
(Examples can be found here at NIH: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21655716)

Liping Deng
Local time: 06:56
Native speaker of: Native in ChineseChinese
Grading comment
Many thanks.
Notes to answerer
Asker: Many thanks for the explanation and reminder. I forgot to distinguish them as medical terms for originally they are from a driving theory test. Thanks a lot.

Asker: Many thanks.


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