refer to something/somebody 向某事物/某人資訊信息等

I referred to my watch for the exact time.
我看了一下手表好知道準確的時間。

refer to 參考；涉及；指的是；適用于

參考：
Writers often refer to a dictionary.
作家時常參考字典。

Finally, make some general notes about your mood that day, so you can refer to it later.
最后，為了你可以日后參考它，對那天你的心情做一些一般性的總結。

適用于：
These regulations refer to every foreigner.
這些規章適用于一切外國人。

Citation indices, which work only where publications refer to their sources explicitly, form a tiny nebula in the digital universe.
引文索引僅適用于明確標明信息來源的出版物，在浩瀚的數字宇宙中，引文索引只能算是小小的星云。

指的是：
That doesn’t necessarily refer to the number of followers, tweets, or retweets you may have, although these are important factors.
這并不一定指的是你追隨者的數量，推特條數，銳推的數量，盡管這些都是重要的因素。

Environmental goods refer to goods or services that reduce pressure on the environment, help create new jobs and can be economically advantageous for businesses.
“環保商品”指的是可以減少對環境的壓力、幫助創造新的就業崗位、使企業能夠擁有經濟優勢的商品或服務。

涉及：
Fictional retellings of the story refer to the mask as an “Iron” mask.
而流傳下來的故事里涉及到這副面具時都說是鐵面具。

The most important parameters are ones that refer to TCP streaming workload tuning.
最重要的參數是那些涉及到 TCP 流工作負載優化的參數。