英汉词典

1. 烹饪配方；食谱
    A recipe is a list of ingredients and a set of instructions that tell you how to cook something.

recipe

    e.g. ...a traditional recipe for oatmeal biscuits.
           燕麦饼干的传统制作配方
    e.g. ...a recipe book.
           食谱书

2. 原因
    If you say that something is a recipe for a particular situation, you mean that it is likely to result in that situation.

    e.g. Large-scale inflation is a recipe for disaster.
           大规模的通货膨胀会造成灾难。