"Administer"与"dispense"在表示执行含义时的区别主要体现在以下三个维度：
1. 执行主体差异
-- Administer：强调官方或权威主体的系统性执行（政府/机构）
例：The court administers justice. （法院执行司法）
-- Dispense：侧重专业个体基于判断的执行（医生/药剂师）
例：The pharmacist dispensed the prescription. （药剂师按方配药） ...(以上内容有节略,please sign in for more)
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【Administer】 and 【dispense】 come into comparison because they are used in certain idiomatic phrases, similar in wording but not always equivalent in meaning, such as 【administer】 justice or 【dispense】 justice; 【administer】 a medicine or 【dispense】 medicine; 【administer】 a sacrament or 【dispense】 the Sacrament. Both words imply an acting on the behalf of another in or as if in the capacity of a steward.
Distinctively 【administer】 denotes to manage, supervise, or conduct the affairs of another while 【dispense】 denotes to deal out in portions or equitably to recipients. These divergent significations are often lost and the words used interchangeably especially when the object of the verb is an abstraction such as justice or charity.
- the citizens disliked the rule of William on account of the strict justice which he administered
—Freeman - These be the sort to 【dispense】 justice. They know the land and the customs of the land.
—Kipling
In reference to a sacrament 【administer】 means to perform the rites and duties prescribed for its proper observance and may be used of any of the sacraments; 【dispense】 , in contrast, is used only of the Eucharist and retains its underlying implication of dealing out in portions. The two words when used in reference to medicine are precisely distinguished.
One administers a medicine when he gives the prescribed dose directly to the patient; one dispenses medicines when he compounds them according to the prescription of the physician.
Similarly, one administers a blow or a rebuke when he deals it out directly to the individual. 【Dispense】 , in comparable phrases, retains its implication of distribution; one dispenses advice when he metes it out to those who in his opinion need it; one dispenses alms when he manages their distribution.
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