correct

• vt. 改正；告诫
• vi. 调整；纠正错误
• adj. 正确的；恰当的；端正的

cor-, 强调。-rect, 直，正确，词源同erect, right .

1. make right or correct;

"Correct the mistakes"

"rectify the calculation"

2. make reparations or amends for;

"right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"

3. censure severely;

"She chastised him for his insensitive remarks"

4. adjust or make up for;

"engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance"

5. punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience;

"The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently"

6. go down in value;

"the stock market corrected"

"prices slumped"

7. alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard;

"Adjust the clock, please"

"correct the alignment of the front wheels"

8. treat a defect;

"The new contact lenses will correct for his myopia"

correct

correct: [14] Correct is etymologically related to rectitude and rightness. It comes from the past participle of Latin corrigere ‘make straight, put right’, a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix com- and regere ‘lead straight, rule’. This regere (source of English regent, régime, regiment, and region) goes back to an Indo-European base *reg- ‘move in a straight line’, which also produced English right, rectitude, regal, royal, and rule. In English the verb correct by a long time predates the adjective, which first appeared (via French) in the 17th century.
=> escort, regal, region, right, royal, rule

correct (v.)

mid-14c., "to set right, rectify" (a fault or error), from Latin correctus, past participle of corrigere "to put straight, reduce to order, set right;" in transferred use, "to reform, amend," especially of speech or writing, from com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + regere "to lead straight, rule" (see regal). Originally of persons; with reference to writing, etc., attested from late 14c. Related: Corrected; correcting.

correct (adj.)

1670s, from French correct "right, proper," from Latin correctus (see correct (v.)). Related: Correctly; correctness.

accurate, exact, precise, right, true, correct

这些形容词均含"准确的，正确的"之意。

accurate：指通过谨慎的努力达到符合事实或实际，侧重不同程度的准确性，与事实无出入。

exact：着重在质与量方面的准确，语气比accurate强。

precise：侧重极端准确，更强调细节的精确无误。

right：使用广泛，可与这些词中的correct换用，但常暗示道德、理解、行动等方面的正确。

true：暗指绝对准确，尤指复制品与原件丝毫不差。

correct：最常用词，主要指按一定标准或规则来衡量，没有谬误和差错或无缺点错误。

correct, rectify, remedy, revise, amend

这些动词均含"纠正，改正"之意。

correct： 指纠正或改正不正确、不真实或有缺点的东西。

rectify： 正式用词，意义较抽象，侧重指彻底改正偏离子正确标准或规则的东西。

remedy： 正式用词，通常指在局部范围内进行纠正，尤指对困难或棘手问题的解决。

revise： 指通过仔细阅读、反复思考后而进行改正、订正或修订，使趋于完善。

amend： 书面语用词。指进行更正或改变，使之更好，符合更高的要求。

True to her word, she was correct almost every time.

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Others saw them as politically correct and morally appropriate.

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One simple check would be to program a robot to check the correct course of action with a human when presented with an unusual situation.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Why do so many Americans eat tons of processed food, the stuff that is correctly called junk ( ' , 垃圾 ) and should really carry warning labels? It's not because fresh ingredients are hard to come by.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Correct! A hundred percent of our raw material comes from Romania.

2018年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section B

If not corrected by the appropriate carbon price, low fossil fuel prices are not accurately signaling to markets the true social profitability of clean energy.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

It is not correctly interpreted.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Confronted with such facts,some Swedish activists and legislators are demanding more extreme and far-reaching measures, such as replacing male and female pronouns with a neutral alternative and monitoring children more closely to correct them when they gravitate(被吸引) toward gendered play.

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If the employees were unaware of their own deficiencies, the unfavorable evaluation can pinpoint(指出) the deficiencies that employees must correct.

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If the employees were already aware of their deficiencies before the evaluation period, however, they may be unable or unwilling to correct them

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The apparent struggles of the floundering (挣扎的）group have what Kapur calls a "hidden efficacy": they lead people to understand the deep structure of problems, not simply their correct solutions.

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Some reasons, such as a family illness, may have a temporary adverseimpact on performance and can be corrected.

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In this case, the supervisor may simply need to monitor the employees closely and ensure that the deficiencies are corrected

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Private markets corrected themselves.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

But in order to get their fish, both dolphins had to press the levers in the correct order.

出自-2012年6月听力原文

Frightened victims can rarely make correct identification

出自-2012年6月听力原文

Your name Sanjay Kumar is that correct?

出自-2011年6月听力原文

Merian was correct about the giant bird-eating spiders, ants building bridges with their bodies and other details.

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

Be sure to put the waste in the correct containers.

2017年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文

In the weeks that followed, the solution which had come up in my unconscious mind provided correct at every step.

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Knowing these causes can make us examine our behavior,and correct bad habits.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

The purpose of a pony drift is to gather them up so their health can be checked, the baby ones can be stooped from feeding on their mother's milk, and those who've gone beyond their limited area can be returned to their correct area.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Write another email as swiftly as you can and send it with a brief explaining that this is the correct version and the previous version should be ignored.

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

After the first installment, Dickens wrote to the artist and asked him to correct a drawing Dickens felt was not faithful enough to his prose.

出自-2017年考研阅读原文

Meanwhile, this policy does nothing to ensure that the homework students receive is meaningful or appropriate to their age and the subject, or that teachers are not assigning more than they are willing to review and correct.

2012年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Read through your work and correct any mistakes that you find.

从头至尾看一遍你们的作业，发现的错误都要改正过来。

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[不可数名词]The correctness of this decision may be doubted.

此项决定是否正确值得怀疑。

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He was looking correctly grave.

他表情严肃得体。

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They reasoned, correctly, that she was away for the weekend.

他们的推断没错，她出去度周末了。

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Do you have the correct time?

你的表走得准吗？

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the correct answer

正确答案

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Please check that these details are correct.

请检查这些细节是否准确无误。

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‘Are you in charge here? ’ ‘That's correct. ’

“你是这里的负责人吗？”“是的。”

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Am I correct in saying that you know a lot about wine?

你对酒了解颇深，我说得对吧？

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Do you know the correct way to shut the machine down?

你知道这台机器该怎么关吗？

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I think you've made the correct decision.

我认为你的决定是正确的。

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a correct young lady

举止得体的年轻女士

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He is always very correct in his speech.

他说话总是很有分寸。

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Have you spelled it correctly?

你把它拼写对了吗？

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The correct answers can be found at the bottom of page 8...

正确答案在第8页末尾。

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The following information was correct at time of going to press...

下列信息在付印时准确无误。

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You are absolutely correct. The leaves are from a bay tree...

你说得很对，这是月桂树的叶子。

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If Casey is correct, the total cost of the cleanup would come to $110 billion.

如果凯西是对的，清理的总花费将达1,100亿美元。

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The use of the correct materials was crucial...

使用恰当的材料至关重要。

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White was in no doubt the referee made the correct decision.

怀特确信裁判作出了公正的判罚。

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You are perfectly correct in trying to steer your mother towards increased independence...

你试图让自己的母亲变得越来越独立，这样做很正确。

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I think the president was correct to reject the offer.

我认为总统拒绝这一提议是正确的。

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He may need surgery to correct the problem...

要解决这个问题，他可能需要做外科手术。

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He has criticised the government for inefficiency and delays in correcting past mistakes.

他批评政府在纠正过去的错误问题上效率低下，并且拖拖拉拉。

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'Actually, that isn't what happened,' George corrects me...

“实际上，并不是那样，”乔治纠正我。

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I must correct him on a minor point.

我必须纠正他的一处小错误。

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It took an extraordinary effort to focus on preparing his classes or correcting his students' work.

备课和批改学生的作业花费了他很多精力。

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I think English men are very polite and very correct...

我认为英国人很有礼貌，举止非常得体。

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We were rather surprised by their sporting and correct behaviour.

他们富有体育精神而且举止得体，让我们感到相当惊讶。

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As I recall, but correct me if I'm wrong, it was in a car park in Carmarthen.

如果我没记错的话，那是在卡马森的一个停车场内。

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