【refer音标】 英[rɪˈfɜ:(r)] 美[rɪˈfər]
【单词释义】 refer是什么意思：
vi.提到；针对；关系到；请教
vt.归因于…；使求助于；送交；认为…起源于
vt.&vi.涉及；提及；参考，查阅
[单词分级] 高考英语词汇
[第三人称单数] refers
[单词现在分词] referring
[单词过去式] referred
[单词过去分词] referred
【refer形近词/近似词】
infer vt.推断；猜想
transfer v.转移；搬迁；转移（感情）；调动；转乘 n.转移；搬迁；调动；变换；换乘
confer v.商议，磋商；授予，赋予
prefer v.更喜欢；宁愿
defer v.(使)推迟；(使)延期；拖延；听从，遵从（defer to）
【单词例句】
◇ Her job was hard but worthwhile. She often refers to the connection between her achievement and Lin Qiaozhi, and says that her poor childhood is the bond between her and the poor.
她的工作艰苦却很值得。她常常提到她的成就和林巧芝之间的联系，还总是说她贫穷的童年就是她与穷人之间的纽带。
---- A Woman Doctor-Lina
◇ The name Holland only refers to two of the country's 12 provinces, North-Holland, where Amsterdam is located, and South-Holland, the home of Rotterdam and The Hague. However, the nickname is often used to describe the entire country, officially called the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
“荷兰”这个名字仅指该国12个省中的两个省，即阿姆斯特丹所在的“北荷兰省”，以及鹿特丹和海牙所在的“南荷兰省”。 然而，这一名称却经常被用来代指整个国家。荷兰的官方全称为尼德兰王国。
---- Netherlands doesn't want you to call it Holland anymore
◇ Universities, on the other hand, tend to offer both undergraduate and graduate programs leading to advanced degrees for a larger group of students. They can also be comprised of several schools—referred to as colleges—under their umbrella.
University则一般都会提供本科和研究生课程，有更大的学生群体能获得高级学位。University还可以包含college， 即学院。
---- What's the difference between a college and a university?
◇ But if you hop across the Atlantic, you'll find that people use both fall and autumn interchangeably when referring to this time of year, making it the only season in the English language with two widely accepted names.
但如果你横跨大西洋，你会发现人们交替使用fall和autumn来指代秋天，于是秋天便成了英语中唯一一个拥有两个广为接受的名字的季节。
---- The reason why Americans refer to Autumn as fall?
◇ After a hearing test showed she had moderate deafness, she was referred to an ear, nose and throat specialist. The specialist ordered a CT scan, which showed a horrifying condition: Jasmine had a bacterial infection that was "eating away" at her skull bone behind her ear.
由于听力测试显示她有中度耳聋，茉莉被转给一位耳鼻喉专家，这位专家给她做了CT扫描，结果很糟糕：她受到细菌感染，并且感染正在“侵蚀”她耳后的颅骨。
---- Never Cleaning Ears With Cotton Swabs
◇ Doctors often refer to this eye-watering condition as “crocodile tears,” and a 1920s Russian scientist once suggested that such weakened facial muscles allowed "older, possibly crocodilian neurological pathways to emerge" in humans.
医生们通常把这种流泪症状称为“鳄鱼的眼泪”。20世纪20年代的一位俄罗斯科学家曾指出，这种面部肌肉衰弱可能导致人体起用“更古老的或许是鳄鱼式的神经通路”。
（由此看来，鳄鱼流泪只是进食时身体产生的一种自然生理现象，和同情悔过毫无关系，难怪人们会将虚伪的哭泣比作鳄鱼的眼泪了。）