半决赛

Q. A lot of people had given you up for dead not long ago. Here you are in the semis.

问：很多人不久前已经放弃你了，现在你已经进入半决赛了。

ROGER FEDERER: Well, there's nothing wrong me being in the semis, I guess.

我现在已经闯入半决赛，没有什么不合意的。

So I think we're both looking forward to that. I mean, I'm very happy to be through my third consecutive semis, you know, to be honest.

我想我们都会期待那场比赛，老实说我很高兴来到了我第三个连续的大满贯半决赛。

And certainly the fact that she doesn't have two doubles matches in between the semis and the final works to her advantage.

而且肯定的是，她没有两个双打半决赛之间和她的优势，比赛的最后作品。

You know, I work so hard, you know, to get there and then to lose in the semis would be sort of a big disappointment.

我很努力走到这一步，如果在半决赛输球，会很失望。

We faced Coru?a in the semis and it was only at that point that we started to think that we had a great opportunity.

我们 半决赛的对手是拉科鲁尼亚，这让我们开始相信自己遇到了绝佳的机会。

If only we had got through,' I told Michael, 'we would have had a good rest before the semis.

&如果是我们晋级的话，&我告诉Michael，&我们会在半决赛前好好休息一下。&

We had a great semifinals with Paradorn and Marat and Andy in the semis, and myself.

去年我们的半决赛阵容非常强大，Paradorn和Marat、Andy还有我。

You'd rather lose the semis than lose the finals really.

你可能宁愿输半决赛也不愿输掉决赛。

I'm not saying that I'm uncertain about what is going to happen in the semis but there are good things in my game, there are also bad things and I just feel like I have to tighten up a few things and there are definitely big improvements that I can use this week, I just haven't had to show them yet.

我不是说我不确定在半决赛会怎么样，不过在我的打法里有好的东西，也有坏的东西，我感觉我需要加紧一些东西，而显然在这一周我可以运用一些很大的改进，我只是还没有需要使用它们。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。