corrective

1. ADJ Corrective measures or techniques are intended to put right something that is wrong. 糾正性的

Scientific institutions have been reluctant to take corrective action. 科學(xué)機(jī)構(gòu)一直都不愿采取糾正的行動(dòng)。

2. N-COUNT If something is a corrective to a particular view or account, it gives a more accurate or fairer picture than there would have been without it. 匡正[正式]

...a useful corrective to the mistaken view that all psychologists are behaviourists. …對(duì)所有心理學(xué)家都是行為主義者這一錯(cuò)誤觀點(diǎn)的有效匡正。