back burner

常見例句

His desires -- companionship and clean laundry -- are put on the back burner.
他的愿望——得到陪伴、清洗衣物——被拋在了腦后。
With the threat to national security in the foreground, issues of economic management are often put on the back-burner.
隨著構(gòu)成國(guó)家安全的威脅日益凸顯，有關(guān)經(jīng)濟(jì)管理方面的議題被擱置下來。
Mobile operators see the new field as such a small part of their overall business that it gets relegated to the back-burner.
看到新興領(lǐng)域只在他們?nèi)拷?jīng)濟(jì)中占很小份額，手機(jī)經(jīng)營(yíng)商就將其暫放一旁不管。

Whereas energy conservation has typically been a back-burner subject, today it is up front.
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These major infastructure projects were put on the back-burner after recession hit and still have yet to be approved.
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India wants Pakistan similarly to put their dispute over Kashmir on the back-burner and normalise relations in other areas.
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