Here is where we come down to the proverbial brass tacks. Whose strongest team would triumph more times than the others in an eternal semi-final/final knock-out competition?

那么让我们来做个设想：假如进行多场半决赛/决赛淘汰制的比赛，那支球队会依靠他们最强的阵容夺得最多的锦标？

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"What's going on here?" he asked himself, turning on his headlights and shifting his 40-ton semi to a lower gear.

“发生了什么？”他问自己，随后打开他的车头灯，把40吨重的半挂车的档位调的低些。

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Here, we have experienced and explored a semi-automated method for generating a high-level abstraction of a UML class diagram.

这里，我们尝试并探索了，以半自动方法产生U ML类图的高层抽象方案。

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The appearance of this semi-epic rhyme scheme here at the end of Milton's poem suggests his readiness, and he's ready only here at the end of Lycidas to embark on the epic project.

弥尔顿诗篇的最后处半史诗韵律的设计,显示了他已准备就绪，他在的结尾处依然准备好了,在史诗的创作上留下自己的印迹。

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In 2003, we thought they would be in every final for years but Serena hasn't even been to a semi-final here since she got to the final in 2004.

BBC: Tracy Austin on Venus v Serena

Here are those semi-rational explanations.

BBC: Fear and capitulation in European banks

"We obviously came here to reach the semi-finals, so one of our three goals has been achieved, " said English coach Jason Lee.

BBC: England beat India to reach semis