back burner

基本解释

• 次要地位；多眼炉子的后炉眼

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• 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。

权威例句

• Whereas energy conservation has typically been a back-burner subject, today it is up front.
  FORBES: Smart Grid May be Shortest Route to Obama's Green Energy Goals
• These major infastructure projects were put on the back-burner after recession hit and still have yet to be approved.
  FORBES: Will Loreto, Mexico Be One Of The World's Most Sustainable Urban Destinations?
• India wants Pakistan similarly to put their dispute over Kashmir on the back-burner and normalise relations in other areas.
  ECONOMIST: Asian security

词组短语

短语

• back -burner 不重要的
• back wall of burner 小炉后墙
• on the back burner 搁在靠后的炉子上；搁置着
• put on the back burner 先搁置一边;缓议;暂时搁置一旁;把
• back and forth type burner 往复式燃烧炉

英英字典

柯林斯英英字典

• 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 .

专业释义

土木建筑工程

• 后灶眼