• vi. 參考；涉及；提到；查閱
• vt. 涉及；委托；歸諸于；使…求助于

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.

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》