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The next best thing to flying is gliding.

仅次于飞行的事就是滑翔。

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The one thing he didn't have was a son. I think he's felt that a grandson is the next best thing.

有一样东西他没有，就是儿子。我觉得他有个外孙感觉也不错。

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Combinations of drugs are able to suppress the deadly virus in the body -- if not a cure, in the traditional sense but the next best thing.

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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。

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I will leave it at that, although I will start next week by showing how that view of Hobbes is only at best partially correct.

我就讲到这里，下周我首先会解释,霍布斯的这个观点如何只是部分正确的。

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China have 35 golds, with Australia and Ukraine the next best nations with 13 each.

BBC: Paralympics taken to UK's heart, Locog says

The American version makes business success the next best thing to fraternalism and solidarity.

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They can't pay players, so they choose the next best thing: shiny facilities to lure them.

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