Correct

(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' .

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• 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·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Probably the chief cause of devotion to rigidity of method is, however, that it seems to promise speedy, accurately measurable, correct results. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• He had slipped insensibly into the use of her Christian name, and she had never found the right moment to correct him. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• 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. 雪莉.
• The possession of a grey garment was a third point which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a certainty. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• 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. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• 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·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Do you suppose if there was any offence given me, I shouldn't name it, and request to have it corrected? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• 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. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Agnes said she was afraid I must have given her an unpromising character; but Dora corrected that directly. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• For as the very idea of equality is that of such a particular appearance corrected by juxtaposition or a common measure. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Electric current, corrected Edison. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• But she wouldn't have them corrected--no-o, wouldn't hear of it. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Jane, you don't understand these things: children must be corrected for their faults. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Correcting myself, I said that I was much obliged to him for his mention of Mr. Matthew Pocket-- That's more like it! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• A proposal for correcting modern maps. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• 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. 维莱特.
• Pardon me, sir,' returned Mrs Wilfer, correcting him, 'it is the abode of conscious though independent Poverty. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• You are getting to be rather conceited, my dear, and it is quite time you set about correcting it. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• I kept over him as a child, in the days of his first remembrance, my restraining and correcting hand. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Then he looked at me, and said, correcting himself,-- To be sure! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The postscript is, therefore, to be found in few copies; it corrects several errors in the book. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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