on the back burner

基本解釋

The current financial crisis cannot be an excuse to put climate on the back burner, the report warns.
報(bào)告告誡說，當(dāng)前的金融危機(jī)不能成為把氣候問題放在次要地位的借口。
So here we are, with the greatest challenge facing mankind on the back burner, at best, as a policy issue.
所以現(xiàn)在我們的狀況是，把人類面臨的最大的挑戰(zhàn)擱置一旁，至多當(dāng)成一個(gè)政策問題。
Job creation has been put on the back burner, as all of Washington is afflicted with deficit fever.
由于全華盛頓都受到赤字問題的牽連，創(chuàng)造就業(yè)機(jī)會(huì)的計(jì)劃還在準(zhǔn)備之中。

Ronald Suny, with the University of Chicago, sees other reasons why Georgia's and Ukraine's NATO membership bids are In his words, on the very,very distant back burner.

But any ambition he had in the food world was put on the back burner.
FORBES: This article appears in the August 6th issue of Forbes.
Brand expansion plans, like Ebay books and an Ebay magazine, are on the back burner.
FORBES: Another Look
Since then, Americans have pretty much put tea off the boil and on the back burner.
NPR: Tea for You and Me

If something is on the back burner, it is temporarily not being dealt with or considered, especially because it is not urgent or important.