South Africa was rated next to last in hiring and firing practices in a report from the World Economic Forum.

世界经济论坛的一份报告称，南非在雇佣和解雇实践中排名倒数第二。

Congrats to Mrs. Civelletti's class at Rivermont Collegiate in Bettendorf, Iowa, for today's Your Word Wednesday winner, penultimate, an adjective meaning next to last.

恭喜爱荷华州贝特恩多夫里弗蒙特学院的西维尔蒂夫人班级，成为今天" YourWordWednesday" 栏目的赢家，penultimate，是一个形容词，意思是倒数第二的。

This is the next to last line, and usually with Shakespeare, it's indented a little bit, because the last two lines usually rhyme together.

这是倒数第二行， 通常是莎士比亚，它缩进一点， 因为最后两行通常押韵在一起。

But it just means next to last and though we'll be kicking off a new season on August 13th, this is the penultimate production of the current one.

但它只是意味着倒数第二，我们将在8月13日开始全新的一季，这是本季的倒数第二集。

Competitors had to be 14 and under long passed when the rest of the contestants had crossed the finish line, the fight for next to last place featured these two stragglers.

参与者必须是15岁以下，当其他参赛者都穿过重点线时，竞争倒数第一名的是这两个掉队的人。