corrective

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

Scientific institutions have been reluctant to take corrective action. 科学机构一直都不愿采取纠正的行动。

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. …对所有心理学家都是行为主义者这一错误观点的有效匡正。