on the back burner

常见例句

雙語例句

• 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.
  所以現在我們的狀況是，把人類麪臨的最大的挑戰擱置一旁，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，創造就業機會的計劃還在準備之中。

原聲例句

• 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.

權威例句

• 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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