| 单词 | second best |
| 释义 | second best also second-best 1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] 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. He put on his second-best suit. We polished and wore our second-best boots. 2. adjective You can use second best to describe something that you have to accept even though you would have preferred something else. ...a messy, second-best solution. He refused to settle for anything that was second best. Second best is also a noun. Oatmeal is a good second best. Collocations: second-best team Too many sights of the world's second-best team drawing deeper on lavish resources to topple the world's best? Times, Sunday Times It's no consolation being the second-best team. The Sun In truth, they've been the second-best team for a while. Times, Sunday Times The quarterfinals match the team with the best record against the team with the worst record, while the second-best team faces the seventh-best, third against sixth and fourth against fifth. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 第二好的 Japanese: 次位の |
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