refer
英[r?'f??]
美[r?'f?]
- vi. 參考；涉及；提到；查閱
- vt. 涉及；委托；歸諸于；使…求助于
詞態變化
第三人稱單數:?refers;過去式:?referred;過去分詞:?referred;現在分詞:?referring;
助記提示
咱們中國有個成語就叫：追本溯源。
注意加后綴雙寫r與不雙寫r的情況：referrer, referral; reference, referee.
中文詞源
refer 提到，談及，查閱，參考
re-,向后，往回，-fer,拿，帶，詞源同 bring,infer.引申諸相關詞義。
英文詞源
- refer
- refer: [14] To refer something is etymologically to ‘carry it back’. The word comes via Old French referer from Latin referre, a compound verb formed from the prefix re- ‘back’ and ferre ‘carry’ (source of English fertile and related to English bear). Of its derivatives, referee [16] is an English coinage, and referendum [19] is an adoption of the neuter gerundive of referre – literally, ‘that which is to be referred’. Relātus, which was used as the past participle of Latin referre, has given English relate.
=> bear, referee, referendum - refer (v.)
- late 14c., "to trace back (to a first cause), attribute, assign," from Old French referer (14c.) and directly from Latin referre "to relate, refer," literally "to carry back," from re- "back" (see re-) + ferre "carry" (see infer). Meaning "to commit to some authority for a decision" is from mid-15c.; sense of "to direct (someone) to a book, etc." is from c. 1600. Related: Referred; referring.
雙語例句
- 1. He could refer the matter to the high court.
- 他可以將此事交由高等法院裁決。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Only your family doctor can refer you to a surgeon.
- 只有你的家庭醫生才能把你介紹給外科醫生。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. But he then went on to refer very directly to the argument.
- 不過接下來他就直切主題提到了那場爭論。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. All employees will refer to each other by the honorific suffix "san".
- 所有雇員相互稱呼時都須在名字后添加敬語san（日語表示“先生”，“女士”）。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. May I refer you back to my earlier remarks on this subject?
- 是否讓我向你重提一下我在這個主題上先前講述的話?
來自《簡明英漢詞典》