accurate、exact、precise、right、true与correct这些形容词均含“准确的、正确的”之意。
accurate ：指通过谨慎的努力达到符合事实或实际，侧重不同程度的准确性，与事实无出入。
- an accurate description/account/calculation
准确的描述 / 叙述 / 计算
exact ：着重在质与量方面的准确，语气比accurate强。
- an exact copy/replica of the painting
那幅画的精确复制品 -
All this might suggest that intellectual differences are hard-wired, with women abler and more assiduous, but men better at the exact sciences.
所有这些似乎都表明性别间的智力差异是先天性的：女性更能干、更用功，而男性更擅长精确科学。
——《经济学人》
precise ：侧重极端准确，更强调细节的精确无误。
- precise details/instructions/measurements
确切的细节；明确的指令；精确的尺寸 -
Tackling questions of survival, endurance and moral obligations during wartime, the book is as precise and artful and ingenious as the puzzle boxes the heroine’s locksmith father builds for her.
本书在探讨战争期间的生存、忍耐与道义责任等问题时，如同女主人公做锁匠的父亲为她打造的谜箱一样细致而巧妙。
——《纽约时报》
right ：使用广泛，可与这些词中的correct换用，但常暗示道德、理解、行动等方面的正确。
- You were quite right to criticize him.
你批评他批评得很对。
true ：暗指绝对准确，尤指复制品与原件丝毫不差。
- The movie is not true to the book.
这部电影并非忠于原著。
correct ：最常用词，主要指按一定标准或规则来衡量，没有谬误和差错或无缺点错误。
- Please check that these details are correct.
请检查这些细节是否准确无误。 -
完善干部考核评价体系，引导干部树立和践行正确政绩观，推动干部能上能下、能进能出，形成能者上、优者奖、庸者下、劣者汰的良好局面。
We will improve the system for assessing officials’ performance and see that officials have a correct understanding of what it means to perform well. We should also see that officials can be demoted as well as promoted and dismissed as well as recruited, thereby creating an environment in which the competent are elevated, the outstanding are rewarded, the mediocre are demoted, and the incompetent are dismissed.——党的二十大报告（双语全文）
