Before refrigerators were invented, the next best thing was an ice box.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

And I'll also remind you, and we're going to see this in the next example, we talked about looking at the worst case behavior. In these cases there's no best case worst case, it's just doing one computation.

我还要提醒大家的就是，我们也会在下一个例子里发现者一点，我们谈到了要去考虑最坏的情况,在下面这些例子里,没有好情况坏情况之分，就只是一次运算。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Everyone agree because 5 is bigger than 1, and 5 is bigger than 4, so Up is and to use a technical term we'll define formally next time Up is the best response to Left.

大家都知道5大于1,5也大于4,所以选上是,以后我们就要用术语来说了,选上是左的最佳对策

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

'It may have seen itself as the leader but it was basically the next best thing in its own Revolutionary discourse on the market.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

Dr.Damiano says the system is not a cure, but it is the next best thing.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

The next day, Mr.Black put on his best cloth and we walked around Winston-Salem.

VOA: special.2011.01.08