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| 1 | right according to the facts, with no mistakes 正确的；对的；无误的 |
| The first person to give the correct answer wins the contest. 第一个给出正确答案的人将赢得这场比赛。 |
| Make sure you use the correct address. 确认一下你用的地址是否正确。 |
| | 1a | right according to your opinion or judgment of a situation （根据自己的观点或对形势的判断认为）正确的 | | If my calculations are correct, we should arrive in exactly 17 minutes. 如果我的计算没错的话，我们应该正好在17分钟后到达。 | | a correct diagnosis 正确的诊断 | |
| | 1b | right according to the established rules or ways of doing something （根据已有的规则或做事方法认为）正确的 | | a grammatically correct sentence 语法上正确的句子 | |
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| 2 | not usually before noun behaving in a way that is considered socially right or polite （行为）得体的，合适的，礼貌的 |
| My father was always very formal and correct. 我父亲表现得总是很正式、很得体。 |
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| correctly adv |
| She guessed my age correctly. 她猜对了我的年龄。 |
| They refused, quite correctly, to give us this information. 他们十分礼貌地拒绝给我们提供这个信息。 |
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