| 词汇 | righted |
| 释义 | righted past simple and past participle ofright right verb[ T ] uk /raɪt/ us /raɪt/ formal If you right a situation or a mistake, you make it better or correct it: 改正，纠正；使恢复正常 It's a terrible situation and we should right it as soon as possible.这种局面太糟糕了，我们应当尽快使其恢复正常。 If a boat rights itself, it turns itself back to its correct position in the water: 将（船）扶正；使（船）翻转（到正常位置） The canoe will right itself if it capsizes.独木舟如果翻了，会自己正过来。 Correcting and mending calibration clean (someone/something) up correction fiddle (around) with something fine-tune mess reconstruct reconstruction recover rectifiable rectification refine remedy revise scratch set/put the record straightidiom smooth something away smoothen sort sort something out You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Staying afloat, capsizing & sinking Examples of rightedrighted In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. But she very soon righted herself and to the expedition members' great relief they found that the damage was minor. This volume, however, is not simply a compendium of wrongs partially righted. That said, might the effect of our folly in this last regard be righted by the keel of evolutionary fortune? And so the same principle requires two further laws to complete its effect : that wrongdoing is to be righted and that good deeds are to be repaid. Is there any way in which this anomalous and indefensible situation can be righted, even if it means more work for the monitoring forces? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is another wide field in which we cannot but feel that great injustice has been done, and that many wrongs have to be righted. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 While the tanker was being righted two manhole covers fell off and a larger quantity of petroleum spirit spilled on to the roadway. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It seems to me that we have now righted this wrong and made up for lost time. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English He is also linking that with the expectation that what he sees as a wrong will be righted accordingly. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Since then, it seems to me that matters have righted themselves. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English If that is true, it is something which might well be righted. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is never too late to right a wrong, but the wrong should be righted as quickly as possible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The thing we cannot do anything about is that when the wrong has been done, it cannot be righted; the damage has been done. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are faced with a mass of anomalies, but here is a wrong which can easily be righted. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When they were first raised, there were two or three weeks of diminished purchases; then the situation gradually righted itself. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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