- 1nB2
/rɪˈfɜːrəl/
when someone sends a person or a matter to another person so that they can be helped or dealt with.
轉介；轉診
複數 referrals
核心畫面
Picture a doctor writing a short note and saying, 'I can't treat this here — take this to the eye specialist.' The person or the problem does not stop with the first person; it gets passed along to someone better placed to handle it, and the note is the handover itself. A referral is that act of passing on, seen as a thing you can have, get, need or write.
可以想成醫生寫了一張紙條說：「這個我這邊處理不了，你拿這張去看眼科。」人或問題沒有停在第一個人手上，而是被往下送給更…更多收起
可以想成醫生寫了一張紙條說：「這個我這邊處理不了，你拿這張去看眼科。」人或問題沒有停在第一個人手上，而是被往下送給更適合處理的人，那張紙條就是這個交接動作本身。referral 就是把「往下轉交」這件事變成一個看得見、拿得到的東西——你可以 have、get、need，也可以 write 一個 referral。原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
referralnoun/ɹɪˈfɜː.ɹəl/
- 1
The act or process of transferring someone or something to another, of sending by reference, or referring.
- The insurance company insists I get a referral from my regular doctor. I can't just go to the specialist; a GP has got to refer me.
- 2
slangA document used by schools detailing some form of a student's misbehavior and listing the actions taken before and after the student's receipt of the referral.
- After misbehaving in class, George was given a referral for disrupting class and sent to the office.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。