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Corrective describes something meant to fix or improve a problem — corrective glasses fix poor , and 'corrective action' at work means steps taken to fix a mistake. As a noun, 'a corrective' is the fix itself.
矯正的、糾正性的；矯正措施
組成correct + -ive (adjective ending, 'tending to' or 'having the purpose of')
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
correctiveadj/kəˈɹɛktɪv/
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Of or pertaining to correction; serving to correct.
- As the currents were changing rapidly, the captain had to make many corrective course changes.
- Since the accident I've had to wear a corrective brace.
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obsoleteQualifying; limiting.
- The Psalmist interposeth a caution in this corrective particle, Yea, Happy. It hath the force of a revocation, whereby he seems to retract what went before, not simply and absolutely, but in a certain degree […]
correctivenoun/kəˈɹɛktɪv/
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Something that corrects or counteracts something.
- alkalies are correctives of acids
- penalties are correctives of immoral conduct
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obsoleteLimitation; restriction.
- What Correctives there may be supposed that may check and restrain that Increase of Mankind, that otherwise according to the ordinary course of Nature would have obtained in the World.
- It is a maxim established upon good reason, that every thing exceeding its just bounds, is hurtful to nature. The best of things are not excepted in this general rule. Even the necessary supports of life, if not qualified and made wholesome by this corrective, may prove the procurers of death.
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