When Mom moved to San Francisco and became a Kelly girl instead, she did the next-best thing. She married our father.
当妈妈搬到旧金山来住而且又变成了一个普普通通的女孩子后,她做了件稍逊于最佳的事:嫁给了我爸爸。
The next-best solution is to abandon the project altogether.
仅次于最佳的解决方法是放弃全部计画。
Under the new proposal, the top four seeds would be slotted by record among the three division winners and the team with the next-best record.
按照新的提议,三个分区冠军和除此之外总战绩最好的球队,将按战绩排序确定前四位种子。
Fall is the next-best season, then winter.as for summer, it seems to be a good time to take a long vacation from thinking!
秋天是第二个最好的季节,其次是冬天,至于夏天,它似乎是一段人们不动脑筋、休长假的好时光。
If your next-best alternative to seeing the movie is reading the book, then the opportunity cost of seeing the movie is the money spent plus the pleasure you forgo by not reading the book.