Correction

(noun.) the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right.

(noun.) treatment of a specific defect; 'the correction of his vision with eye glasses'.

(noun.) a drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases; 'market runups are invariably followed by a correction'.

(noun.) something substituted for an error.

(noun.) a rebuke for making a mistake.

(noun.) a quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure.

塞西尔编辑

• I wish to express my gratitude also to Miss Florence Bonnet for aid in the correction of the manuscript. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• They will use friendly correction, but will not enslave or destroy their opponents; they will be correctors, not enemies? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• For, as the song says--subject to your correction, sir-- “When the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispelled if Venus appears. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• But all statistical devices are open to abuse and require constant correction. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The notion of any correction beyond what we have instruments and art to make, is a mere fiction of the mind, and useless as well as incomprehensible. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The correction for the aberration of light is said by Muller not to be perfect even in that most perfect organ, the human eye. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• These things, he added, looking at Lydgate, would be to me such relaxation as tow-picking is to prisoners in a house of correction. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Feeling the inutility of answering these charges, I mutely continued the correction of a pile of English exercises. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• To lead a life of self-correction is not the way to forget. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Matter must be considered as created by God in accordance with law and as ever obedient to law, not as an independent or hostile fo rce needing occasional correction. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• It is designed to ascertain variations in corneal curvature for the correction of corneal astigmatism. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• On those points he was ever open to correction. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Provision is made for the correction of errors, and operation is in two directions, forward for addition and multiplication, and backward for subtraction and division. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Edison had a few minor corrections to make, probably not more than a dozen all told. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• HE COPIED OUT PAINSTAKINGLY THE ENTIRE PAPER IN LONG HAND, embodying the corrections as he went along, and presented the result of his work the following morning. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I return the papers with some corrections. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.

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