1920, "act of referring," from refer + -al (2). Especially to an expert or specialist (a sense attested from 1955). Earlier word was referment (1550s).
权威例句
1. Legal Aid can often provide referral to other types of agencies.
法律援助机构通常可以帮助引荐到其他类型的机构去。
2. Ask your doctor for a referral to a clinical psychologist.
让你的医生给你推荐一位临床心理学家。
3. illnesses requiring referral to hospitals
需要送到医院就诊的疾病
4. First, a referral to the agency may preserve needed uniformity in a regulatory program.
第一, 提交行政机关解决有可能维护规范性项目所需的统一性.
5. Temple built by referral, the original parent phase, the mother monument.