新概念第三冊lesson 35 Justice was done

Lesson35JusticewasdoneNewwordsTheword'justice'isgiventwodifferentmeaningsinthetext.Whatisthedistinctionbetweenthem?

Listenjusticeusually(L1):abstractconcept:partofthecomplexmachineryofthelawperformedbyhardtoachieve(human,

subjective)rareinstances(L7):actslikealivingforceactofitsownaccordItserveshimright.judgesP1P2P3illustrationillustrationTheword

justiceisusuallyassociatedwith

courtsoflaw(法院，法庭）.Wemightsaythatjusticehasbeendonewhenaman’sinnocenceor

guilt

hasbeenprovedbeyonddoubt.Justiceispartofthecomplexmachineryofthelaw.Thosewhoseekit

undertakeanarduousjourneyandcanneverbesurethattheywillfindit.Judges（法官）,howeverwiseoreminent(有名望的),arehumanandcanmakemistakes.

eminent:famousandadmiredparagraph1justice n. 正義，公正；司法(theministryofjustice)injustice 不公平，不公正--Justiceisdone.--正義得到伸張bringthecriminalto

justice. 把罪犯緝拿歸案,繩之以法dojusticetosb. 公平對待某人，給以公正的評價---那張照片不如你本人好看---Thatphotodoesn’tdoyoujustice.dooneselfjustice充分發(fā)揮自己的能力---Shedidn’tdoherselfjusticeintheexam.beyondprep.(介詞)：超出某種范圍，限度，主要搭配名詞beyonddoubt無可懷疑beyondbelief難以相信beyondwords難以形容beyonddescription難以描述beyondquestion難以質疑beyondhope沒有希望beyonddispute無可爭議beyondcontroversy無可爭辯beyondimagination難以想象beyondmeasure 難以衡量beyondunderstanding難以理解beyondcomparison 無與倫比--Yourbeautyisbeyondmydescription.--你的美是我無法用言詞形容的。innocence n無辜(guilt)innocent a.無辜的(guilty)undertake v.承擔，著手做undertaketodo--Heundertooktoinformeveryoneconcerned.--Weundertakeainvestigation.承擔，著手做：↓starttodosetouttodosetaboutdoingbeengagedinsth.undertakeanarduousjourneyarduous a.艱苦的，艱難的--StudyingEnglishisanarduousjob.ous

結尾的形容詞industrious a.勤勞的laborious a.勞神的，費力的，吃力的Therearerareinstanceswhenjusticealmostceasestobeanabstractconcept.Rewardorpunishmentaremetedoutquiteindependentofhumaninterference.Atsuchtimes,justiceactslikealivingforce.Whenweuseaphraselike'itserveshimright',weare,inpart,admittingthatacertainsetofcircumstanceshasenabledjusticetoactofitsownaccord.

paragraph2inpart：部分地，在某種程度上itserveshimright.他罪有應得，他活該justicealmostceasestobeanabstractconceptcease:（正式）徹底的停止，暗指動作的突然性ceasedtodo與動詞不定式連用--Hisheartsuddenlyceasedtobeat.

他的心臟突然停止了跳動。stop:（廣泛，不正式）不強調方式，只強調結果--Thecarsuddenlystopped.

車突然停了。justicealmostceasestobeanabstractconceptabstracta.抽象的反義詞：concepta.具體的

n.摘要，提要

makeanabstractofsth.做···的摘要

v.提取，提煉

abstractjuicefromanorangeRewardorpunishmentaremetedoutquiteindependentofhumaninterferencemeteout

給予，處置meteoutreward進行獎勵meteoutpunishment進行懲罰--Justicewasmetedouttothem. --他們得到了公正的處理。beindependentofhumaninterferencebeindependentof不受

interferencen.干涉，干預↓inter-表示between“之間的”international國際的inter-city城市之間的inter-racial種族間的表示“相互”

interchange互換

interact相互作用

interrelate相互聯系enablejusticetoactofitsownaccord.

accord n/vi一致inaccordwith:和……一致outofaccordwith:和……不一致ofone’sownaccord:自然而然地--Justiceisdoneofitsownaccord.accordingto:依據，根據inaccordancewith:依據（法律）Theshopwasanoldconvertedhousewithmanylarge,disused（廢棄的）

fireplaces（壁爐）andtall,narrowchimneys（煙囪）.Towardsmidday,agirlheardamuffledcrycomingfrombehindoneofthewalls.Asthecrywasrepeatedseveraltimes,sherantotellthemanagerwhopromptly

rangup

thefirebrigade.

convertv.轉變，改變convert····to/into··· 把……轉變?yōu)閙uffled聽不清的，蒙住的

mufflev.捂住，壓抑promptly=immediatelyringup打電話給firebrigade消防隊Whenathiefwascaughtonthepremisesofalargejewellerystoreonemorning,theshopassistantsmusthavefoundit

impossibletoresist（抵抗）thetemptation（誘惑）tosay'itserveshimright.'

premises:n.【pl.】經營場所，辦公場所onthepremises在經營場所內

premisen.前提，假設residence:住處（非常正式的用詞）dwelling:供人居住的地方，也是非常正式的用詞house:住房housing:房（總稱）thehousingproblem住房問題

Thecryhadcertainlycomeformoneofthechimneys,butasthereweresomanyofthem,thefirefighterscouldnotbecertainwhichoneitwas.Theylocatedtherightchimneybytappingatthewallsandlisteningfortheman'scries.

firefighters

消防隊員locatev.findoutwheresth.is找到tap v.輕敲

n.水龍頭，閥門Theylocatedtherightchimneybytappingatthewallsandlisteningfortheman'scries.bytappingatthewallsandlisteningfortheman‘scriesand連接前后形式要一致listenfor:payattention,soastobesureofhearing 留神聽（表示集中注意力，等待聽到某種聲音）--WearelisteningfortheclocktoannouncetheNewYear.我們正等待新年鐘聲的敲響。--I’mlisteningforyoursteps.我正傾聽著你的腳步聲。Afterchippingthroughawallwhichwaseighteeninchesthick,theyfoundthatamanhadbeentrappedinthechimney.Asitwasextremelynarrow,themanwasunabletomove,butthefirefighterswereeventuallyabletofreehimbycuttingahugeholeinthewall.

inch英尺(=2.54centimeters)foot英寸(=12inches)Thereare12inchesinafoot.Thesorry-looking,blackenedfigurethatemerged,admittedatoncethathehadtriedtobreakintotheshopduringthenightbuthadgotstuckinthechimney.Hehadbeentherefornearlytenhours.Justicehadbeendoneevenbeforethemanwashandedover

tothepolice.

chipthroughawallchip v.切下、削下、鑿下（碎片、屑片）

chipahole鑿了一個洞

n.碎屑，碎片，薄片，芯片

chipsofwood碎木屑

potatochips薯片chop:砍

chophead砍頭sorry-looking

滿臉沮喪的類似ugly-looking/good-looking;cheerful-looking/sa