宿命! 里约奥运半决赛林丹再战李宗伟!

 Twice-Olympic champion Lin Dan survived a huge scare against India's Srikanth Kidambi in the men's badminton singles in Rio on Wednesday to set up a semi-final with Malaysia's Lee Chong Wei, the man he beat for the gold medal in Beijing and London.

在本周三里约奥运羽毛球男子单打比赛中，两届奥运金牌得主林丹惊险战胜印度选手斯里坎特·基达姆比，在半决赛中将迎战来自马拉西亚的李宗伟。林丹就是在北京和伦敦奥运会上击败了李宗伟，从而赢得了金牌。

China's Lin, bidding for an unprecedented¹ third successive² title, was pushed to the limit in the 68-minute battle with world number 11 Srikanth but ratcheted up the pressure in the deciding game to close out the match 21-6 11-21 21-18 at the Riocentro.

中国队的林丹正向史无前例的三连冠发起冲击，在对阵世界排名第11位的斯里坎斯、耗时68分钟的比赛中，他被逼到了绝境，但是最终林丹顶住了压力，在决胜局取得胜利，最终以21-6、11-21、21-18的总比分获胜。

Top seed Lee had a far easier run against Chou Tien-chen in the opening match and was never seriously tested by the seventh-ranked Taiwanese during a 21-9 21-15 demolition³.

赛会头号种子李宗伟的对手是来自中华台北的周天成，李宗伟的开局要轻松许多，而世界排名第七的周天成整场比赛都没有给李宗伟带来真正的压力，最终李宗伟以21-9、21-15的比分获胜。

宿命! 里约奥运半决赛林丹再战李宗伟!

Third-ranked Lin's seeding put him in Lee's side of the draw, denying fans another battle royale in the gold medal-decider but Friday's semi-final will pit⁴ two of the finest players of the modern era⁵ against each other in their Olympic swan song.

赛会三号种子林丹将与李宗伟狭路相逢，球迷们看不到两人之间另一场金牌决胜赛了，但是在周五的半决赛上，这两位当今时代最优秀的羽毛球运动员也将上演一场奥运史诗。

Thirty three year-old Lee has beaten Lin in their past two meetings but has only tasted heartbreak in big tournaments against his Olympic nemesis⁶. The Chinese dashed Lee's hopes of a first gold in his final Asian Games at Incheon in 2014 and denied him twice in the final at the 2011 and 2013 world championships.

在最近的两场比赛中，33岁的李宗伟都击败了林丹，但是在大型赛事中，面对自己的奥运克星，他却只能尝到心碎的滋味。在2014年仁川亚运会上（也是李宗伟最后一届亚运会），林丹击碎了李宗伟亚运会首金的梦想，同时在2011年和2013年世锦赛上，林丹又两次击败了李宗伟。

"The last big tournament we played was the 2014 Asian Games," Lin told reporters. "We've played in tournaments since but the Olympic arena⁷ is a bit different."

林丹对记者说道：“我俩打的最后一场大型赛事是2014年的亚运会，自那以后我们也打过一些比赛，但是奥运赛场有点不同。”

"However you look at it, it's a match-up between two players. We've all been working really hard these four years and are again at the Olympics," he added. "At least it proves that we two 33-year-old athletes can still compete at a high level."

林丹继续说道：“不管你怎么看，这都是两名运动员之间的一场比赛。在这四年里我们一直都非常努力，最终再一次在奥运赛场上相见。至少这证明了我们两个33岁的运动员还是保持了很高水平的竞技状态。”

1 unprecedented   

adj.无前例的，新奇的

参考例句：

• The air crash caused an unprecedented number of deaths.这次空难的死亡人数是空前的。
• A flood of this sort is really unprecedented.这样大的洪水真是十年九不遇。

2 successive   

adj.接连的，连续的，相继的

参考例句：

• He won three successive matches.他连胜三场比赛。
• In memory,instructions are stored in a sequence of successive bytes.在记忆体中，指令被存放在一个连续的字节序列中。

3 demolition   

n.破坏,毁坏,毁坏之遗迹

参考例句：

• The church has been threatened with demolition for years. 这座教堂多年来一直面临拆毀的威胁。
• The project required the total demolition of the old bridge. 该项目要求将老桥完全拆毁。

4 pit   

n.深坑，核，矿井，陷阱，英国剧场正厅后排，凹陷疤痕；vt.使...有伤痕，去...的核，与...较量

参考例句：

• A sheep fell into a pit,and I helped it out.一只羊掉进坑里，我把它弄了出来。
• They dug a pit to bury the rubbish.他们挖了一个坑把垃圾埋掉。

5 era   

n.时代，年代，纪元，阶段

参考例句：

• We are living in the information era.我们生活在信息时代。
• We are living in a great historic era.我们正处在一个伟大的历史时代。

6 nemesis   

n.给以报应者，复仇者，难以对付的敌手

参考例句：

• Uncritical trust is my nemesis.盲目的相信一切害了我自己。
• Inward suffering is the worst of Nemesis.内心的痛苦是最厉害的惩罚。

7 arena   

n.竞技场，运动场所；竞争场所，舞台

参考例句：

• She entered the political arena at the age of 25. 她25岁进入政界。
• He had not an adequate arena for the exercise of his talents.他没有充分发挥其才能的场所。