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The word 'justice' is given two different meanings in the text.

在课文中，“正义”一词被赋予了两种不同的含义。

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What is the distinction between them?

它们之间有什么区别呢？

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The word justice is usually associated with courts of law.

“正义”一词通常与法庭联系在一起。

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We might say that justice has been done when a man's innocence or guilt has been proved beyond doubt.

当一个人的清白或罪行被无可置疑地证明时，我们可能会说正义得到了伸张。

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Justice is part of the complex machinery of the law.

正义是法律复杂机制的一部分。

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Those who seek it, undertake an arduous journey and can never be sure that they will find it.

追求正义的人会踏上一段艰难的旅程，而且永远无法确定他们是否会找到它。

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Judges, however wise or eminent, are human and can make mistakes.

法官，无论多么明智或杰出，都是人，也可能犯错误。

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There are rare instances when justice almost ceases to be an abstract concept.

在极少数情况下，正义几乎不再是一个抽象的概念。

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Reward or punishment are meted out quite independent of human interference.

奖励或惩罚在完全没有人类干预的情况下被施加。

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At such times, justice acts like a living force.

在这种时候，正义就像一股活生生的力量。

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When we use a phrase like 'it serves him right',

当我们使用“活该”这样的短语时，

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we are, in part, admitting that a certain set of circumstances has enabled justice to act of its own accord.

我们部分承认了某种情况使正义得以自然而然地发挥作用。

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When a thief was caught on the premises of a large jewellery store one morning,

一天早上，当一个小偷在一家大型珠宝店的院子里被抓到时，

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the shop assistants must have found it impossible to resist the temptation to say 'it serves him right'.

店员们一定觉得很难抵制住说“活该”的冲动。

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The shop was an old converted house with many large, disused fireplaces and tall, narrow chimneys.

这家店是一座由老房子改建而成的，有很多大的废弃壁炉和又高又窄的烟囱。

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Towards midday, a girl heard a muffled cry coming from behind one of the walls.

快到中午时，一个女孩听到墙后传来一阵低沉的哭声。

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As the cry was repeated several times,

哭声重复了几次之后，

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she ran to tell the manager who promptly rang up the fire brigade.

她跑去告诉经理，经理立刻给消防队打了电话。

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The cry had certainly come from one of the chimneys,

哭声确实是从一个烟囱里传出来的，

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but as there were so many of them, the firemen could not be certain which one it was.

但由于烟囱太多，消防员无法确定是哪一个。

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They located the right chimney by tapping at the walls and listening for the man's cries.

他们通过敲击墙壁并聆听那个人的哭声来确定正确的烟囱。

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After chipping through a wall which was eighteen inches thick,

在凿穿一堵18英寸厚的墙后，

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they found that a man had been trapped in the chimney.

他们发现一个人被困在烟囱里了。

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As it was extremely narrow, the man was unable to move,

由于烟囱非常狭窄，那个人无法动弹，

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but the fire fighters were eventually able to free him by cutting a huge hole in the wall.

但消防员最终通过在墙上凿开一个大洞，成功地解救了他。

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The sorry-looking, blackened figure that emerged,

那个狼狈不堪、浑身漆黑的人影出现后，

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admitted at once that he had tried to break into the shop during the night but had got stuck in the chimney.

立刻承认他曾试图在夜间闯入商店，但被卡在了烟囱里。

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He had been there for nearly ten hours.

他已经在里面待了将近十个小时。

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Justice had been done even before the man was handed over to the police.

甚至在将那个人移交给警方之前，正义就已经得到了伸张。