Lesson 35 Justice was done

Song Lesson 35 Justice was done
Artist 英语听力
Album 新概念英语(第三册)

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[00:01.080] --- lesson 35 Justice was done
[00:06.080] --- Listen to the tape then answer the question below.
[00:11.480] --- The word 'justice' is given two different meanings in the text. What is the distinction between them?
[00:20.760] The word justice is usually associated with courts of law.^“
[00:25.920] We might say that justice has been done when a man's innocence or guilt has been proved beyond doubt.
[00:33.560] Justice is part of the complex machinery of the law.
[00:38.280] Those who seek it undertake an arduous journey and can never be sure that they will find it.
[00:45.320] Judges, however wise or eminent, are human and can make mistakes.
[00:51.600] There are rare instances when justice almost ceases to be an abstract concept.
[00:57.800] Reward or punishment are meted out quite independent of human interference.
[01:04.160] At such times, justice acts like a living force.
[01:08.640] When we use a phrase like 'it serves him right',
[01:12.160] we are, in part, admitting that a certain set of circumstances has enabled justice to act of its own accord.
[01:20.720] When a thief was caught on the premises of a large jewellery store one morning,
[01:25.760] the shop assistants must have found it impossible to resist the temptation to say 'it serves him right.'
[01:32.600] The shop was an old converted house with many large, disused fireplaces and tall, narrow chimneys.
[01:41.240] Towards midday, a girl heard a muffled cry coming from behind one of the walls.
[01:47.640] As the cry was repeated several times, she ran to tell the manager who promptly rang up the fire brigade.
[01:55.240] The cry had certainly come from one of the chimneys,
[01:58.880] but as there were so many of them, the fire fighters could not be certain which one it was.
[02:04.920] They located the right chimney by tapping at the walls and listening for the man's cries.
[02:11.480] After chipping through a wall which was eighteen inches thick, they found that a man had been trapped in the chimney.
[02:19.280] As it was extremely narrow, the man was unable to move,
[02:23.480] but the fire fighters were eventually able to free him by cutting a huge hole in the wall.
[02:30.000] The sorry-looking, blackened figure that emerged, admitted at once that he had tried to break into the shop during the night but had got stuck in the chimney.
[02:40.680] He had been there for nearly ten hours.
[02:43.800] Justice had been done even before the man was handed over to the police.

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[00:01.080] lesson 35 Justice was done
[00:06.080] Listen to the tape then answer the question below.
[00:11.480] The word ' justice' is given two different meanings in the text. What is the distinction between them?
[00:20.760] The word justice is usually associated with courts of law."
[00:25.920] We might say that justice has been done when a man' s innocence or guilt has been proved beyond doubt.
[00:33.560] Justice is part of the complex machinery of the law.
[00:38.280] Those who seek it undertake an arduous journey and can never be sure that they will find it.
[00:45.320] Judges, however wise or eminent, are human and can make mistakes.
[00:51.600] There are rare instances when justice almost ceases to be an abstract concept.
[00:57.800] Reward or punishment are meted out quite independent of human interference.
[01:04.160] At such times, justice acts like a living force.
[01:08.640] When we use a phrase like ' it serves him right',
[01:12.160] we are, in part, admitting that a certain set of circumstances has enabled justice to act of its own accord.
[01:20.720] When a thief was caught on the premises of a large jewellery store one morning,
[01:25.760] the shop assistants must have found it impossible to resist the temptation to say ' it serves him right.'
[01:32.600] The shop was an old converted house with many large, disused fireplaces and tall, narrow chimneys.
[01:41.240] Towards midday, a girl heard a muffled cry coming from behind one of the walls.
[01:47.640] As the cry was repeated several times, she ran to tell the manager who promptly rang up the fire brigade.
[01:55.240] The cry had certainly come from one of the chimneys,
[01:58.880] but as there were so many of them, the fire fighters could not be certain which one it was.
[02:04.920] They located the right chimney by tapping at the walls and listening for the man' s cries.
[02:11.480] After chipping through a wall which was eighteen inches thick, they found that a man had been trapped in the chimney.
[02:19.280] As it was extremely narrow, the man was unable to move,
[02:23.480] but the fire fighters were eventually able to free him by cutting a huge hole in the wall.
[02:30.000] The sorrylooking, blackened figure that emerged, admitted at once that he had tried to break into the shop during the night but had got stuck in the chimney.
[02:40.680] He had been there for nearly ten hours.
[02:43.800] Justice had been done even before the man was handed over to the police.