Well...um, let me just call in a few references before we make anything official.

恩...在我们签订任何正式的文件前，先让我打电话给几个推荐人。

Those are sometimes called reference books.

这些有时被称为参考书。

So, I will call your references, and we'll be in touch.

那么我先打电话给你的推荐人 然后再联系你。

We do this by using units and frames of reference, which are also called reference frames.

我们通过使用单位和参考系（也称为参考系）来做到这一点。

You know, you can have two events that happen and two different people looking at it from two different what we call reference frames.

可以有两个事件发生两个不同的人身上、他们从两个不同的参照系来观察它。

Bear in mind that they will probably call your references and if they find out that you've been exaggerating or lying you'll be at the bottom of the pile.

请记住，他们可能会打电话给你的参考人，如果他们发现你一直在夸大其词或说谎，那么你肯定会名落孙山。

And so we were interested in finding out how much people actually know about how they rank relative to others, and we're interested in various, what you may call, reference groups.

所以我们很想知道人们对于自己与他人的排名知道多少，我们对各种各样的，你可以称之为参照组的东西很感兴趣。

The Yakut people of eastern Siberia call brown bears " grandfather" and " uncle." Shepherds in the French Pyrenees call the brown bear la va-nu-pieds, the " barefooted one, " a reference to its humanlike footprints.

东西伯利亚的雅库特人称棕熊为“祖父”和“叔叔”。法国比利牛斯山脉的牧羊人将棕熊称为“la va-nu-pieds”，意为“赤脚熊”，指的是其类似人类的脚印。