”正义”这个词通常与法院联系在一起。
The word justice is usually associated with courts of law.
我们或许可以说，当一个人的清白或罪行已被确凿无疑地证明时，正义便得以伸张。
We might say that justice has been done when a man's innocence or guilt has been proved beyond doubt.
正义是法律这部复杂机器的组成部分。
Justice is part of the complex machinery of the law.
那些追求正义的人，踏上的是一段艰辛的旅程，而且永远无法确信自己能够找到它。
Those who seek it, undertake an arduous journey and can never be sure that they will find it.
法官无论多么睿智或卓越，都是人，都会犯错。
Judges, however wise or eminent, are human and can make mistakes.
有些罕见的情形下，正义几乎不再是一个抽象概念。
There are rare instances when justice almost ceases to be an abstract concept.
奖赏或惩罚完全不受人为干预，自然而然地降临。
Reward or punishment are meted out quite independent of human interference.
在这样的时刻，正义就像一股活生生的力量在运作。
At such times, justice acts like a living force.
当我们使用”他活该”这样的短语时，我们在某种程度上是在承认，某种特定的情形使正义得以自发运作。
When we use a phrase like 'it serves him right', we are, in part, admitting that a certain set of circumstances has enabled justice to act of its own accord.
一天早晨，当一名小偷在一家大型珠宝店的场地内被抓住时，店员们想必觉得根本无法抵制说一句”活该”的冲动。
When a thief was caught on the premises of a large jewellery store one morning, the shop assistants must have found it impossible to resist the temptation to say 'it serves him right'.
这家店是一栋由旧房子改建而成的建筑，里面有许多宽大却废弃不用的壁炉，以及又高又窄的烟囱。
The shop was an old converted house with many large, disused fireplaces and tall, narrow chimneys.
将近中午时分，一名女店员听到从某面墙壁后面传来一声低沉模糊的呼喊。
Towards midday, a girl heard a muffled cry coming from behind one of the walls.
由于那呼喊声接连响了好几次，她跑去告诉经理，经理随即打电话叫来了消防队。
As the cry was repeated several times, she ran to tell the manager who promptly rang up the fire brigade.
那呼喊声肯定是从某根烟囱里传出来的，但由于烟囱数量实在太多，消防员们无法确定到底是哪一根。
The cry had certainly come from one of the chimneys, but as there were so many of them, the firemen could not be certain which one it was.
他们通过敲击墙壁、聆听那个人的呼喊声，最终确定了正确的烟囱位置。
They located the right chimney by tapping at the walls and listening for the man's cries.
在凿穿一堵厚达十八英寸的墙壁之后，他们发现一名男子被困在烟囱里。
After chipping through a wall which was eighteen inches thick, they found that a man had been trapped in the chimney.
由于烟囱极为狭窄，那名男子无法动弹，但消防员们最终还是通过在墙上凿出一个巨大的洞，将他解救了出来。
As it was extremely narrow, the man was unable to move, but the fire fighters were eventually able to free him by cutting a huge hole in the wall.
那个从洞里爬出来的、一脸落魄、浑身被烟熏黑的人，立刻承认他曾在夜间企图闯入这家店，却被卡在了烟囱里。
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.
他已经在那里被困了将近十个小时。
He had been there for nearly ten hours.
甚至在那名男子被移交给警方之前，正义便已然得到了伸张。
Justice had been done even before the man was handed over to the police.