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A semifinal is the match or round right before the final in a competition. If you win your semifinal, you go on to play in the final for first place. There are usually two semifinals, and the two winners then face each other.
準決賽（比賽中，最後決賽前的那一輪）
組成semi- (half, 一半) + final (決賽)
同家族的字
- finalsemifinal 就是 final（決賽）前面加上 semi-（一半）
- quarterfinalquarterfinal 是準決賽前的一輪，字根 quarter 是「四分之一」
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
semifinalnoun
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hobbieslifestylesportsA playoff in the round with only four players or teams left, the stage before the final.
- Roger Federer extended his grasscourt streak to 57 matches with a victory over Marcos Baghdatis and will play Nicolas Kiefer in the semifinals of the Gerry Weber Open in Halle, Germany.
- In the 1991 Wimbledon semifinal between Michael Stich and Stefan Edberg, there was just one service break in the entire match, and the guy whose serve was broken, Stich, ended up winning the match!
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A competition that narrows a field of contestants (semifinalists) to a set of finalists, for a subsequent final.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。