Corrective
[kə'rektɪv] or [kə'rɛktɪv]
解释:
(noun.) a device for treating injury or disease.
(adj.) tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition; 'corrective measures'; 'corrective lenses' .
(adj.) designed to promote discipline; 'the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional'; 'disciplinal measures'; 'the mother was stern and disciplinary' .
哈罗德手打--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Having the power to correct; tending to rectify; as, corrective penalties.
(a.) Qualifying; limiting.
(n.) That which has the power of correcting, altering, or counteracting what is wrong or injurious; as, alkalies are correctives of acids; penalties are correctives of immoral conduct.
(n.) Limitation; restriction.
德布斯录入
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Regulative, alterative, preventative, restorative
ANT:Confirmative, conducive, provocative, stimulative, intensitive
录入:尼科尔
例句:
- The utilitarian principle is valuable as a corrective of error, and shows to us a side of ethics which is apt to be neglected. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Moore took it with a smile, half-corrective, half-grateful. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- It is always a trial, said Mr. Bulstrode; but trial, my dear sir, is our portion here, and is a needed corrective. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Extreme, almost insane, as his doctrine undoubtedly is, it may have value as a corrective influence, an antidote for other extreme views. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
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