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reference

英['ref(ə)r(ə)ns] 美['rɛfrəns]
  • n. 参考,参照;涉及,提及;参考书目;介绍信;证明书
  • vi. 引用
  • vt. 引用

英英释意


1. a remark that calls attention to something or someone;
"she made frequent mention of her promotion"
"there was no mention of it"
"the speaker made several references to his wife"
2. a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage;
"the student's essay failed to list several important citations"
"the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book"
"the article includes mention of similar clinical cases"
3. an indicator that orients you generally;
"it is used as a reference for comparing the heating and the electrical energy involved"
4. a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts;
"he contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic"
5. a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability;
"requests for character references are all to often answered evasively"
6. the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to;
"the extension of `satellite of Mars' is the set containing only Demos and Phobos"
7. the act of referring or consulting;
"reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer"
8. a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to;
"he carried an armful of references back to his desk"
"he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation"
9. the relation between a word or phrase and the object or idea it refers to;
"he argued that reference is a consequence of conditioned reflexes"