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"