back burner

常见例句

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