a situation in which virtue is rewarded and vice is punished, often ironically
一种美德得到奖励，恶习受到惩罚的情况，通常是讽刺性的 (yī zhǒng měidé dédào jiǎnglì, èxí shòudào chéngfá de qíngkuàng, tōngcháng shì fèngcìxìng de)
"It was poetic justice when the dishonest lawyer lost his case due to his own lies."
"当那个不诚实的律师因为自己的谎言而输掉案件时，这就是诗意的正义。" (Dāng nàgè bù chéngshí de lǜshī yīnwèi zìjǐ de huǎngyán ér shū diào ànjiàn shí, zhè jiùshì **shīyì de zhèngyì**.)
to learn by making mistakes or through difficult experiences
to start something new that others begin to follow
to gain someone's trust through actions or reliability
extremely ill or very close to dying
to postpone something to a later time
to spread gradually among people
