[al:新概念英语（三）] [ar:MP3 同步字幕版（英音）] [ti:Justice was Done] [by:更多学习内容，请到chazidian.com搜索“新概念”] [00:01.46]Lesson 35 [00:03.64]Justice was done [00:11.91]The word 'justice' is given two different meanings in the text. [00:16.83]What is the distinction between them? [00:21.21]The word justice is usually associated with courts of law. [00:26.36]We might say that justice has been done [00:28.84]when a man's innocence or guilt has been proved beyond doubt. [00:34.03]Justice is part of the complex machinery of the law. [00:38.69]Those who seek it, undertake an arduous journey [00:42.41]and can never be sure that they will find it. [00:45.76]Judges, however wise or eminent, are human and can make mistakes. [00:52.06]There are rare instances when justice almost ceases to be an abstract concept. [00:58.18]Reward or punishment are meted out quite independent of human interference. [01:04.58]At such times, justice acts like a living force. [01:09.07]When we use a phrase like 'it serves him right', [01:12.35]we are, in part, admitting that a certain set of circumstances has enabled justice to act of its own accord. [01:21.14]When a thief was caught on the premises of a large jewellery store one morning, [01:26.04]the shop assistants must have found it impossible to resist the temptation to say [01:30.82]'it serves him right'. [01:33.00]The shop was an old converted house with many large, disused fireplaces and tall, narrow chimneys. [01:41.64]Towards midday, a girl heard a muffled cry coming from behind one of the walls. [01:48.09]As the cry was repeated several times, [01:50.83]she ran to tell the manager who promptly rang up the fire brigade. [01:55.73]The cry had certainly come from one of the chimneys, [01:59.19]but as there were so many of them, [02:00.94]the firemen could not be certain which one it was. [02:05.35]They located the right chimney by tapping at the walls and listening for the man's cries. [02:11.72]After chipping through a wall which was eighteen inches thick, [02:15.66]they found that a man had been trapped in the chimney. [02:19.69]As it was extremely narrow, the man was unable to move, [02:23.74]but the fire fighters were eventually able to free him by cutting a hole in the wall. [02:30.42]The sorry-looking, blackened figure that emerged, [02:33.25]admitted at once that he had tried to break into the shop during the night but had got stuck in the chimney. [02:41.02]He had been there for nearly ten hours. [02:44.19]Justice had been done even before the man was handed over to the police.