This can be considered an appeal to descriptive linguistics rather than prescriptive linguistics.

这可以被认为是对描述性语言学而不是规范性语言学的一种诉求。

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We will use this recipe through the rest of this series of articles to provide prescriptive guidance on how to develop services.

在本系列文章中，我们都将使用此菜谱来提供有关开发服务的规定性指南。

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This assertion needs significant clarification to reduce confusion and to align with the prescriptive concepts and terms in this paper.

为了减少混淆并与本文描述的概念和术语契合，需要澄清这种说法。

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Other cultures don't use this type of prescriptive notation.

其他文化不使用这样说明性的记谱法

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The idea that an entire continent of 500 million people can be ruled by detailed and prescriptive rules like this one (and the entirety of life is being tangled up in similar rules) strikes me as being beyond the bounds of sensibility.

FORBES: Prunes Are Not Laxatives: Official European Union Ruling

This certainly sounded like a rejection of the prescriptive approach of the national curriculum and the numeracy and literacy strategies.

BBC: NEWS | UK | Education | What makes a good teacher?

The fullest guide through this territory, as it happens, avoids pointedly prescriptive claims.

NEWYORKER: Semi-Charmed Life