The United States Department of Agriculture and the food industry collect sales statistics and keep accurate records
出自-2012年12月听力原文
英语六级真题
For example, in research with 3920 college students, Doctor Snyder and his colleagues found that the level of hope among freshmen at the beginning of their first semester was a more accurate predictor of their college grades, than were their SAT scores or their grade point averages in high school, the two measures most commonly used to predict college performance.
出自-2010年12月听力原文
柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
ADJ-GRADED
（信息、测量、数据或仪器等）精确的，准确的
Accurate information, measurements, and statistics are correct to a very detailed level. An accurate instrument is able to give you information of this kind.
例句
Police have stressed that this is the most accurate description of the killer to date...警方强调这是迄今对凶手最精确的描述。This may provide a quick and accurate way of monitoring the amount of carbon dioxide in the air...这也许能提供一个监测空气中二氧化碳含量的既快又准的方法。
ADJ-GRADED
（说法、描述）确切的，恰当的
An accurate statement or account gives a true or fair judgment of something.
例句
I think it may take sometime before we can have an accurate assessment of the damage...我认为我们对损失作出准确的估算可能需要一段时间。They were accurate in their prediction that he would change her life drastically.他们预测得没错，他使她的生活发生了翻天覆地的变化。
ADJ-GRADED
（行动、模仿）正确的，到位的
You can use accurate to describe the results of someone's actions when they do or copy something correctly or exactly.
例句
Marks were given for accurate spelling and punctuation.因拼写及标点正确而得分。...his maliciously accurate imitation of Hubert de Burgh.他对休伯特·德伯格到位的恶搞模仿
ADJ-GRADED
（武器、投掷）精准的；（人）射击（或投掷）准的
An accurate weapon or throw reaches the exact point or target that it was intended to reach. You can also describe a person as accurate if they fire a weapon or throw something in this way.
例句
The rifle was extremely accurate...这把步枪准头极高。The pilots, however, were not as accurate as they should be.然而飞行员并不像他们该达到的水平那样精准。
英汉词典释义
adj.
精确的, 准确的
He has made an accurate measurement of my garden.他准确地丈量了我的花园。
正确无误的
He is always accurate in what he says and does.他说的和做的总是正确无误。
英英词典释义
Adjective
1. conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy;
"an accurate reproduction""the accounting was accurate""accurate measurements""an accurate scale"
2. (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct;