| 单词 | correct |
| 释义 | cor·rect I. transitive verb 1. a. < correct some of the mistaken ideas about farming — C.R.Hope > < his answer was wrong and he at once corrected himself > < legislative action designed to correct existing difficulties — U.S. Code > < correct abuses in the city prison > b. < the good philosopher was leaning a little in the other direction to correct the excess of my hellenizing zeal — A.N.Whitehead > c. < correct a reading of a gas volume for temperature and pressure > < correct a lens for spherical aberration > < correct the timing in a motor > 2. a. < the older woman corrected the man for taking liberties > b. < the student had to be corrected several times during her recitation > < correct proof by indicating the changes to be made in type > < a teacher corrects examination papers > 3. obsolete intransitive verb Synonyms: < to correct a false accusation > < to correct a wrong address on a package > < to correct a serious fault of character > < to correct spelling errors > One rectifies a mistake or an injustice or a deviation from a standard by the elimination or nullification of the mistake or injustice or by making the deviation conform to the standard < an incredible, disgraceful blunder, which should be rectified at the earliest possible moment — New Republic > < to have exploited, rather than tried to rectify … misunderstandings — Times Literary Supplement > < set himself to rectify the spiritual and physical poverty of his people — Green Peyton > One emends by freeing from error or defect, especially a statement that misrepresents a speaker's intention or a piece of writing that contains doubtful readings < to emend a financial report hastily and inaccurately compiled > < to emend a transcription of an ancient religious scroll > One remedies a cause of trouble, harm, or evil by rendering it innocuous or substituting for it what is good, right, or helpful < the crime can never be remedied, it can only be expiated — C.D.Lewis > < done much to remedy the confusion — American Guide Series: Vermont > < must remedy their deficiencies — Loyola University Bulletin > One redresses an unfairness, injustice, or imbalance sometimes by elimination of it but usually by making a reparation or providing compensation < trying to redress the serious dislocations resulting from … bad policies — E.B.George > < to redress the imbalance in American politics — M.W.Straight > < the wrongs that were to be righted, the grievances to be redressed, the abuses to be done away with — Malcolm Muggeridge > < the redress of certain social inequities — W.R.Inge > One amends something by making such corrections or alterations as will better it < to amend her life > < the work once done he could not or would not amend it — W.B.Yeats > < to amend local traffic regulations > One reforms something by making drastic alterations for the better, usually so that it acquires a new form or character < to reform an inefficient administrative system > < reformed the rules of procedure of the mayor's court — M.L.Bonham > < to reform sloppy habits of study > One revises something when he makes changes that presumably improve it without drastically altering the character of the whole, usually after looking it over carefully < to revise a manuscript story > < to revise his opinions > < to revise a business organization > Synonym: see in addition punish. II. 1. a. of literary or artistic style < a correct Palladian portico > b. < the correct tip is sixpence — Richard Joseph > < Soviet criticism … tried to rule on the attitude of the author as correct or incorrect — Edmund Wilson > c. < rebuffed or evaded with dry correct civilities — John Hurkan > : placing high value on propriety < a careful and correct young man > d. of speech or writing 2. a. < have a correct answer to the problem > : conforming to logical or proven principles or agreeing with known truth < it would be correct to call it the best possible treaty > < the correct way to hold the tool > b. of a copy or reproduction 3. < sent the correct return postage > Synonyms: < it is our custom at Shangri-La to be moderately truthful, and I can assure you that my statements about the porters were almost correct — James Hilton > < the more correct social circles of Boston and Cambridge — Florence H. Bullock > accurate implies positive and careful fidelity to fact or truth < the phrases are good enough for statesmen, who identify order with orders and creation with regulations, but the poet-writer must be more accurate than that — E.M.Forster > < a solecism of this kind … would have seemed a shocking thing to … so accurate a scholar — L.P.Smith > exact, sometimes interchangeable with precise, generally emphasizes the strictness of the agreement or conformity with fact, standard, or truth < not less than a hundred and thirty feet surely … a hundred and twenty-eight, to be exact — Dorothy Sayers > < sciences are not vague. On the contrary they are exact. They are based on fact, proven fact — T.B.Costain > precise carries the idea of sharpness of definition or delimitation or scrupulous exactness < I saw the outside of the note, addressed in straggling, irregular characters, very unlike Holmes' usual precise hand — A.C.Doyle > < only an endlessly patient, careful, laborious, precise investigator could set up the new revolutionary conceptions needed to replace these traditions and preconceptions — Havelock Ellis > nice, in the sense pertinent here, implies great, sometimes excessive, precision or delicacy as in discrimination of terms, or the adjustment of interrelated parts < the small provincial gentry of the West, as drawn by Miss Austen … are nice in their gentility almost to a fault — G.M.Trevelyan > < it was a time of revolution, when nice legal distinctions are meaningless — John Buchan > < the detail of the cornices, the delicate fanlight and nice disposition of carved ornament on the white exterior — American Guide Series: Vermont > right, very close in meaning to correct, has a more positive suggestion, often implying more than mere avoidance of error < the right practice of “art for art's sake” was the devotion of Flaubert or Henry James — T.S.Eliot > < where water from wells has just that right degree of permanent hardness to favor brewing — L.D.Stamp > • - correct in the mouth |
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