second best

基本解釋

But on the bright side, Bush was selected second best president named George Bush.
但可喜的事，在名叫喬治布什的總統(tǒng)中布什被認為是第二個最好的總統(tǒng)。
Its future was secured after a group of Nobel prize winners convinced the prime minister at the time, Yukio Hatoyama, that Japan should not settle for second best.
不過京的未來是有保障的，會有一批諾貝爾獲獎者去說服當時的首相鳩山由紀夫，日本永遠不會屈居第二。
But at the end of the day, I had to go with the film that won Hanks his second Best Actor Oscar in a row.
但最終我不得不選擇為漢克斯贏得第二個奧斯卡最佳演員的《阿甘正傳》。

Pittsburgh had finished the regular season with the second best record in the AFC at 12-4 while the Cardinals squeaked into the post-season from the NFC at 9-7.
And if the goalie dives to the right, you're best off shooting to the left, second best off shooting to the middle, and worst off by shooting to the right; and that's kind of common sense.
如果門將撲向右邊,你最好從左路射門,其次從中路射門,從右路射門是最差的選擇,這些都是常識了吧
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So, not surprisingly in this game, it turns out that if the goalie dived to the left you're best off shooting to the right, second best off shooting to the middle, and worst off shooting to the left.
因此毫無爭議地說,如果門將撲向左路,你最好選擇從右路射門,其次是從中路射門,最差的選擇是從左路射門
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The second best-selling active NBA pitchman is Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers.
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Second best is used to describe something that is not as good as the best thing of its kind but is better than all the other things of that kind.
You can use second best to describe something that you have to accept even though you would have preferred something else.
Second best is also a noun.