on the back burner

常見例句

雙語例句

• The current financial crisis cannot be an excuse to put climate on the back burner, the report warns.
  報(bào)告告誡說，當(dāng)前的金融危機(jī)不能成為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(xiàn)在我們的狀況是，把人類面臨的最大的挑戰(zhàn)擱置一旁，至多當(dāng)成一個(gè)政策問題。
• Job creation has been put on the back burner, as all of Washington is afflicted with deficit fever.
  由于全華盛頓都受到赤字問題的牽連，創(chuàng)造就業(yè)機(jī)會(huì)的計(jì)劃還在準(zhǔn)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(quán)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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