August 23rd, 2009 
ghostlei } The word justice is usually associated with courts of law. We might say that justice has been done when a man’s innocence or guilt has been proved beyond doubt. Justice is part of the complex machinery of the law. Those who seek it undertake an arduous journey and can never be sure that they will find it. Judges, however wise or eminent, are human and can make mistakes.
} Those who seek it undertake an arduous journey… :
本课的 arduous journey 是指辛苦的，艰辛的历程
…recovering from a long and arduous journey.
(lesson44)
44课这里的arduous journey 是指坐飞机坐得很辛苦。
} There are rare instances when justice almost ceases to be an abstract concept. Reward or punishment are meted out quite independent of human interference. At such times, justice acts like a living force. 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.
} it serves him right /he deserves it:
it serves him right这样一句话一般都不是什么好事，就是说他罪有应得l; he deserves it 指他应该得到的，这里可以用来指好的，也可以用来说坏的。
He deserves the best.
他应该得到最好的。
You deserve to be praised.
你应该得到表扬；得到嘉奖。
You deserve to be with someone who appreciates you, and who gets how funny and sweet and amazing, and adorable, and sexy you are.
这样的话其实是夸女孩子的。即是说，你应该跟什么样的人在一起，这个人应该是懂得怎样去欣赏你，知道你是多么的funny, 多么的sweet, 可爱和 amazing。
} When a thief was caught on the premises of large jewelry store one morning, the shop assistants must have found it impossible to resist the temptation to say ‘it serves him right.’ The shop was an old converted house with many large, disused fireplaces and tall, narrow chimneys. Towards midday, a girl heard a muffed cry coming from behind one of the walls. As the cry was repeated several times, she ran to tell the manager who promptly rang up the fire brigade. The cry had certainly come from one of the chimneys, but as there were so many of them, the firefighters could not be certain which one it was.
} from behind: 双介词连用
Do you think they recognize each other from in there?
from behind 双介词连用，之前我提到过介词和副词的连用。这个例子出现了 from in there，介词，介词，副词 这样的连用。
} They located the right chimney by tapping at the walls and listening for the man’s cries. After chipping through a wall which was eighteen inches thick, they found that a man had been trapped in the chimney. As it was extremely narrow, the man was unable to move, but the firefighters were eventually able to free him by cutting a huge hole in the wall.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. He had been there for nearly ten hours. Justice had been done even before the man was handed over to the police.
} The sorry-looking…:
sorry-looking 本课是指哭丧的脸
…the goddess turned out to be a very
modern-looking woman.(lesson3)
modern-looking 这里是指摩登的女人
Apart from an interesting-looking carved dagger…(lesson34)sorry-looking, blackened figure that emerged…(lesson35)
sorry-looking
the only sign of life being an ugly-looking black goat…(lesson48)
The
ugly-looking 是 good-looking的反义词
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