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penultimate

/pi-nuhl-tuh-mit/US // pɪˈnʌl tə mɪt //UK // (pɪˈnʌltɪmɪt) //

倒数第二,倒数第二份,倒数第二个,倒数第二名

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : next to the last: the penultimate scene of the play.
    • : of or relating to a penult or the next to the last syllable in a word: In the word appropriate,-pri- is the penultimate syllable.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a penult.

Examples

  • Astonishing, then, to move from this, the show’s penultimate gallery, into a much smaller room that feels like a private side chapel or monk’s cell installed with “One Candle,” from 1989.

  • Woods crossed the penultimate Cat 1 climb, the Col de Romme, more than a minute ahead of his rivals.

  • If I were Shota, who won the penultimate challenge and yet still had to compete against two other cooks in the finale, I’d be pretty annoyed right now.

  • Multiple refugia from penultimate glaciations in East Asia demonstrated by phylogeography and ecological modelling of an insect pest.

  • Weddings may be a staple of TV series wrapping up their runs, but the medium had never seen one quite like the showstopper FX’s Pose staged for Sunday’s penultimate episode.

  • But then that big bang that ended the penultimate episode happened.

  • And on the penultimate episode of The Bachelor, Assistant District Attorney Andi became the second to reject him.

  • Just look at the penultimate symbol of urban renaissance, Brooklyn.

  • The penultimate episode of the series found Walter White (Bryan Cranston) alone in a New Hampshire cabin.

  • The penultimate band is $200,000 to $250,000, which is ten times as wide as the previous band.

  • It is a derivative word, from Algonkin, and gan the penultimate syllable of the Odjibwa term Sa-g--gan, a lake.

  • Inner lip rather thick and reflected on the base of the penultimate whorl.

  • "You would not have known me then," returned Lady Sellingworth, with the slightest possible stress on the penultimate word.

  • "I don't doubt your friendship for Mr. Armine," he said, at last, laying a faint stress upon the penultimate word.

  • It is fully dealt with in the von Berlepsch Bill in the above-mentioned provision of the penultimate paragraph of § 120a.