1.used for referring to the occasion, person, or thing that comes just before the last one in a series, list, or group
1.The take-home final exam will be based on the next-to last class of the course, and will be due at the beginning of the last class.
带回家的课外期末考试将会根据课程倒数第二节课的内容，并且交件截止日是在最后一节课开始时。
2.This image was taken by myself on the next to last photo of an old Polaroid One Step camera in 1986.
此图片是由我自己的照片旁边过去的旧宝丽一步法相机在1986年。
3.On Thursday, Mr. Ibrahim placed next-to-last in his heat, too, with a time of 29: 28.
周四，伊布拉希姆在预赛中也是排在了倒数第二，成绩是29秒28。
4.the author inadvertently reveals the murderer in the penultimate chapter; the figures in the next-to-last column.
作者在倒数第二章无意说出了凶手是谁；倒数第二根柱子上的图形。
5.On the next-to-last day of school I was delayed a few minutes talking to the principal.
在学校放假的前两天，我跟校长谈话耽搁了几分钟。
6.Sydney ranked next to last in terms of affordability among major cities.
悉尼市在各大城市的住房负担能力排名中位列倒数第二。
7.Terminate the argument list with the next-to-last argument.
终止带有倒数第二个参数的参数列表。
8.I lost my mother's watch. And look! My last, or next-to-last, of three loved houses went. The art of losing isn't hard to master.
我遗失了我妈给我的手表，还不只这样！我最后的、在之前的，总共三栋我所热爱的房子都失去了失去的艺术并非难以掌握。
9.Considering that only 12 nations participated, including Australia, Finland, and Japan, our next-to-last performance was pretty abysmal.
考虑到只有12个国家参加，包括澳大利亚、芬兰和日本，我们倒数第二的表现相当糟糕。
10.The next-to-last line instantiates a new java. net. URL.
倒数第二行实例化一个新的java.