fall short of perfect justice.

是多么的缺乏完美的正义
So whatever perfect justice is,

所以无论完美的正义是什么
it's not one more thing in the empirical world.

它不存在于经验世界中
It's something we can think about.

但它却是我们可以构想的东西
It's something that things in the empirical world

它是以不同程度参与到
can participate in or partake of to varying degrees.

经验世界中的各种事物
But we shouldn't confuse the physical things which can be just,

但是我们不应该把可能正义的现实事物
the people who can be virtuous

比如多少有些
to one degree or another,

德行的人
with perfect virtue or perfect justice.

同完美的德性或完美的正义相混淆
That's something that only the mind can think about,

那仅仅是心灵可以设想的东西
that we don't actually have in the world,

而在现实的经验世界中