The two teams seemed evenly matched but Arsenal came off second best(= lost) .
两支球队看似势均力敌，但阿森纳队最后还是输了。
my second-best suit
我的第二好的一套衣服
a second-best solution
退而求其次的解决办法
1.次好;居二位
1.次好的
2.二等角色
1.someone or something that is not what you wanted or is not as good as others; someone or something that comes directly after the best in order of achievement or quality
1.Striving can only brings out the second best of you, not the best of you. Only passion can bring out the best of you.
拼，只能带出你第二好，不能带出你的最好，只有热诚，可以带出你的最好。
2.Some of her friends began to break from her, think kusama is hoping his name has been put into the second-best.
她的一些老朋友开始背弃疏远她，认为草间弥生为求成名已经把自己降格到非艺术家行列。
3.Also last season we did not to well during the summer but then we had the second best defence in the league and one of the best attacks.
上个赛季，米兰在夏天同样没有发挥出色，但是，我们（上赛季）打出了联赛中第二稳固的后防线，以及最好的进攻线之一。
4.A sufferer of polio, Goebbels had a club foot, but this did not effect his standing as the second best orator in The Reich.
作为一个小儿麻痹症患者，戈培尔有一只木腿，但是这不影响他成为德意志排名第二的演讲家。
5.They said it was a second-best solution that failed to stabilise the euro and restore the trust of the financial markets.
他们表示，这是一种次优解决方案，它未能稳定欧元，也没有恢复金融市场的信任。
6.Thanks to its light "pull" update policy it is usually the second best performing strategy.
感谢它的轻量级“拉”更新策略，它通常是性能第二好的策略。
7.Politics and a public longing for stability and security mean Germany is likely to choose a second-best economic future.
考虑德国的政治状况，公众对稳定和安全的渴望，德国可能会退而求其次，选择一个第二好的经济前景。
8.Make do with second best There is so much variety that you never have to make do with second best.
物品品种繁多，从来不必用二等品来凑合。
9.Back home, second place in the domestic league table was Chelsea's second best finish ever.
而在国内，切尔西获得的联赛第二名也是球队所取得的第二好成绩。
10.Encouraged people achieve the best; dominated people achieve second best; neglected people achieve the least.
被鼓励者成就最多，受控者其次，被忽视者最少。