refer

英 [r?'f??] 美[r?'f?]

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第三人稱單數:?refers;過去式:?referred;過去分詞:?referred;現在分詞:?referring;

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.

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。

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.

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。

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。

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”）。

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?