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)機構(gòu)一直都不愿采取糾正的行動。

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. …對所有心理學(xué)家都是行為主義者這一錯誤觀點的有效匡正。