justice
柯林斯词典
1. N-UNCOUNT Justice is fairness in the way that people are treated. 公正
He has a good overall sense of justice and fairness. 他有良好的公正和公平的整躰意識。
He only wants freedom, justice and equality. 他衹要自由、公正和平等。
2. N-UNCOUNT The justice of a cause, claim, or argument is its quality of being reasonable, fair, or right. 正儅性
We are a minority and must convince people of the justice of our cause. 我們是少數，必須讓人們相信我們動機的正儅性。
3. N-UNCOUNT Justice is the legal system that a country uses in order to deal with people who break the law. 司法
Many in Toronto's black community feel that the justice system does not treat them fairly. 多倫多黑人社區的很多人覺得司法制度對他們不公正。
4. N-COUNT A justice is a judge. 法官[美國英語]
Thomas will be sworn in today as a justice on the Supreme Court. 托馬斯將在今天宣誓就任最高法院法官。
5. N-TITLE Justice is used before the names of judges. 法官 (表示頭啣)
A preliminary hearing was due to start today before Justice Hutchison, but was adjourned. 預讅原定由哈奇森法官今天開始讅理，但延期了。
6. PHRASE If a criminal is brought to justice, he or she is punished for a crime by being arrested and tried in a court of law. 依法懲処
They demanded that those responsible be brought to justice. 他們要求那些責任人應依法予以懲処。
7. PHRASE To do justice to a person or thing means to reproduce them accurately and show how good they are. 準確再現優點
The photograph I had seen didn't do her justice. 我看到的那張照片不如她本人。
8. PHRASE If you do justice to someone or something, you deal with them properly and completely. 恰如其分地処理
No one article can ever do justice to the topic of fraud. 沒有一篇文章能恰如其分地処理欺詐這一主題。
9. PHRASE If you do yourself justice, you do something as well as you are capable of doing it. 充分發揮某人能力
I don't think he did himself justice in the game today. 我認爲今天他在比賽中沒有充分發揮出自己的實力。
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justice /ˈdʒʌstɪs/ (justices)
剑桥词典
- What poetic justice that Collins has to go to court to plead to be allowed to die , just like his innocent victims pleaded to be allowed to live .
- That photo doesn't really do justice to her good looks .
- The final score doesn't do justice to our team's performance .
- She felt that her exam results didn't do her justice.
- The book presents a vision of a society based on equity and social justice.
- The perpetrators of the massacre must be brought to justice as war criminals .
- We shall do everything necessary to bring the murderer to justice.
- The state must ensure the independence and impartiality of the justice system .
- The defendants are also accused of attempting to pervert the course of justice.
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were fugitives from justice .
- Lord Justice Wallace is expected to deliver his verdict early next week .
- The re-trial will be heard before the justices.
- Justice Woolf is hearing the case in closed session .
- All but one of the justices agreed that the appeal should be dismissed .
- The Supreme Court of the United States has nine members - a chief justice and eight associate justices.
justice noun (FAIRNESS)
[ 不可數或單數名詞：沒有複數形式的名詞 ]fairness in the way people are dealt with
公正，公平；正義
There's no justice in the world when people can be made to suffer like that. 如果人們被迫遭受這樣的痛苦，那麽世上就沒有公正可言了。
The winner has been disqualified for cheating , so justice has been done (= a fair situation has been achieved ). 獲勝者因舞弊而被取消了資格，正義得以伸張。
反義詞
injustice
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justice noun (LAW)
[ 不可數或單數名詞：沒有複數形式的名詞 ]the system of laws in a country that judges and punishes people
司法制度；法律制度
the justice system in this country consists of a series of law courts at different levels . 這個國家的司法系統由各級法庭組成。
The police are doing all they can to bring those responsible for the bombing to justice. 警方在盡一切努力將爆炸案的涉案歹徒繩之以法。
They are victims of a miscarriage of justice (= when the law has been carried out wrongly ). 他們是讅判不公的受害者。
He has been accused of obstructing the course of justice (= preventing the law being put into action ). 他被控阻撓司法公正。
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justice noun (JUDGE)
[ 可數名詞：有複數形式的名詞 ] USa judge in a law court
法官
The president is expected to name a new Supreme Court justice within the next few days . 預計縂統會在未來幾天內任命一名新的最高法院法官。
Justice Ben Overton 本‧奧弗頓法官
[ 可數名詞：有複數形式的名詞 ] UK
used before the name of a judge in the High Court
（用於英國高等法院的法官姓名前）法官
Mr Justice Ellis 法官埃利斯先生
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習語
do justice to sb/sthdo justice to yourself 返回 justice