The 'Three Lions', as England are known, were almost pipped at the post by a strong Italian team who came close to scoring before the final whistle.

有名的英格兰“三狮军团”在最后一刻被强劲的意大利球队击败，终场哨声响起时，意大利球队差点就进球得分。

But Janelia has been pipped at the post to create a connectome of a complete brain by a group called FlyWire, based at Princeton University.

但在创建完整大脑连接组方面，珍妮莉亚学院已被普林斯顿大学一个名为 FlyWire 的团队击败。

When the Soviets got wind of this program, they thought, " Well, we're not going to get pipped at the post" and so they went for their own selection process and subsequently flew Valentina Tereshkova, the first female in space.

当苏联听到这个项目的风声时，他们想，“好吧，我们不会在这方面被打败的”所以他们开始了自己的遴选进程，随后选中了第一位进入太空的女性，瓦伦蒂娜·捷列什科娃。