put on the back burner

基本解释

Job creation has been put on the back burner, as all of Washington is afflicted with deficit fever.
由于全华盛顿都受到赤字问题的牵连，创造就业机会的计划还在准备之中。
It may even hit when your treatment is over, when you're trying to catch up with everything you had to put on the back burner.
甚至在治疗过程结束后，仍然会感到非常累，因为在你奋力前追的时候，肯定会把身体的备用能量全部用上。
If I had delayed my speech, it would have sent a message to the American people that their business had been put on the back burner.
如果我再推迟这个演讲，就相当于给美国民众传递这样一个信息——他们的事情并不重要。

But any ambition he had in the food world was put on the back burner.
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