back burner

基本解释

His desires -- companionship and clean laundry -- are put on the back burner.
他的愿望——得到陪伴、清洗衣物——被抛在了脑后。
With the threat to national security in the foreground, issues of economic management are often put on the back-burner.
随着构成国家安全的威胁日益凸显，有关经济管理方面的议题被搁置下来。
Mobile operators see the new field as such a small part of their overall business that it gets relegated to the back-burner.
看到新兴领域只在他们全部经济中占很小份额，手机经营商就将其暂放一旁不管。

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.
ECONOMIST: Asian security

If you put an issue on the back burner, you leave it in order to deal with it later because you now consider it to have become less urgent or important. Compare .