Correct
[kə'rekt] or [kə'rɛkt]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) treat a defect; 'The new contact lenses will correct for his myopia'.
(verb.) make right or correct; 'Correct the mistakes'; 'rectify the calculation'.
(adj.) free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth; 'the correct answer'; 'the correct version'; 'the right answer'; 'took the right road'; 'the right decision' .
(adj.) socially right or correct; 'it isn't right to leave the party without saying goodbye'; 'correct behavior' .
(adj.) in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure; 'what's the right word for this?'; 'the right way to open oysters' .
贝蒂整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; as, correct behavior; correct views.
(v. t.) To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or principles.
(v. t.) To remove or retrench the faults or errors of; to amend; to set right; as, to correct the proof (that is, to mark upon the margin the changes to be made, or to make in the type the changes so marked).
(v. t.) To bring back, or attempt to bring back, to propriety in morals; to reprove or punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude; to chastise; to discipline; as, a child should be corrected for lying.
(v. t.) To counteract the qualities of one thing by those of another; -- said of whatever is wrong or injurious; as, to correct the acidity of the stomach by alkaline preparations.
安德烈整理
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Rectify, amend, mend, reform, redress, reclaim, make right, set right.[2]. Punish, castigate, chastise, discipline.[3]. Change the quality of (by something of an opposite character).
a. Faultless, exact, precise, accurate, right, true, proper, free from error, not faulty.
弗洛西錄入
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Chasten, punish, rectify, amend, reform, emend, redress, set_right, improve
ANT:Spare, falsify, corrupt
SYN:true, exact, faultless, accurate, proper, decorous, right
ANT:false, untrue, incorrect, faulty, wrong
錄入:露西
解釋/意思:
v.t. to make right: to remove faults: to punish: to counterbalance: to bring into a normal state.—adj. made right or straight: free from faults: true.—adjs. Correct′able Correct′ible.—adv. Correct′ly.—n. Correc′tion amendment: punishment: bodily chastisement.—adjs. Correc′tional Correct′ive tending or having the power to correct.—ns. Correc′tioner (Shak.) one who administers correction; Correct′ive that which corrects; Correct′ness; Correct′or he who or that which corrects: a director or governor.—adj. Correct′ory corrective.—Under correction subject to correction—often used as a formal expression of deference to a superior authority.
伯纳德錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- My father, who taught me, is away, and I don't get on very fast alone, for I've no one to correct my pronunciation. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Probably the chief cause of devotion to rigidity of method is, however, that it seems to promise speedy, accurately measurable, correct results. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- He had slipped insensibly into the use of her Christian name, and she had never found the right moment to correct him. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Her judgments ought to be correct when they come, for they are often as tardy of delivery as a Lord Chancellor's. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The possession of a grey garment was a third point which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a certainty. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- I decided that if I found a corresponding crowd there, the only thing to do to correct my lack of judgment in not getting more papers was to raise the price from five cents to ten. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Morgan Was foot-loose and could operate where, his information--always correct--led him to believe he could do the greatest damage. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Do you suppose if there was any offence given me, I shouldn't name it, and request to have it corrected? 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Having corrected the irregularity, she seated herself on one of the glossy purple arm-chairs; Mrs. Peniston always sat on a chair, never in it. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Agnes said she was afraid I must have given her an unpromising character; but Dora corrected that directly. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- For as the very idea of equality is that of such a particular appearance corrected by juxtaposition or a common measure. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Electric current, corrected Edison. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- But she wouldn't have them corrected--no-o, wouldn't hear of it. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Jane, you don't understand these things: children must be corrected for their faults. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Correcting myself, I said that I was much obliged to him for his mention of Mr. Matthew Pocket-- That's more like it! 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- A proposal for correcting modern maps. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- I would give up everything--almost (correcting herself); I would die rather than make you unhappy; that would be too wicked! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Pardon me, sir,' returned Mrs Wilfer, correcting him, 'it is the abode of conscious though independent Poverty. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- You are getting to be rather conceited, my dear, and it is quite time you set about correcting it. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- I kept over him as a child, in the days of his first remembrance, my restraining and correcting hand. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Then he looked at me, and said, correcting himself,-- To be sure! 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The postscript is, therefore, to be found in few copies; it corrects several errors in the book. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
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