Corrective

(noun.) a device for treating injury or disease.

(adj.) tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition; 'corrective measures'; 'corrective lenses' .

(adj.) designed to promote discipline; 'the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional'; 'disciplinal measures'; 'the mother was stern and disciplinary' .

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• The utilitarian principle is valuable as a corrective of error, and shows to us a side of ethics which is apt to be neglected. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Moore took it with a smile, half-corrective, half-grateful. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It is always a trial, said Mr. Bulstrode; but trial, my dear sir, is our portion here, and is a needed corrective. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Extreme, almost insane, as his doctrine undoubtedly is, it may have value as a corrective influence, an antidote for other extreme views. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

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