"Be second only to" nghĩa là gì?

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"Be second only to (someone or something)" nghĩa là chỉ đứng sau/ về sau người giỏi nhất thôi.

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During the lead-up to the last election, Howard himself repeatedly claimed that Australia was second only to Canada in the generosity (khoan hồng) of its treatment of refugees (dân tị nạn).

Brazil became the world No 2 hotspot for coronavirus cases on Friday, second only to the United States, after it confirmed that 330,890 people had been infected by the virus, overtaking Russia, the Health Ministry said.

For within a few months Priestley was to move from being a moderately (vừa phải) famous writer to a position where, via the Radio Postscripts, he was considered by some to be second only to Churchill in the public's mind.

John Locke has come to be identified as the most important English philosopher (nhà triết học), as the founder of what has become known as British Empiricism, and among political philosophers he ranks as second only to Thomas Hobbes.


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