on the back burner
基本解釋
- 擱在靠後的爐子上；擱置著
英漢例句
- The current financial crisis cannot be an excuse to put climate on the back burner, the report warns.
報告告誡說，儅前的金融危機不能成爲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，把人類麪臨的最大的挑戰(zhàn)擱置一旁，至多儅成一個政策問題。 - Job creation has been put on the back burner, as all of Washington is afflicted with deficit fever.
由於全華盛頓都受到赤字問題的牽連，創(chuàng)造就業(yè)機會的計劃還在準備之中。 - 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
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英英字典
- If something is on the back burner, it is temporarily not being dealt with or considered, especially because it is not urgent or important.