backburner
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美
n. 次要地位; 从属地位
过去分词：backburnered
COCA.44780
柯林斯词典
- N-SING 次要地位；从属地位
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.- Many speculated that the US would put the peace process on the back burner...
很多人推测美国将会暂时搁置和平进程。 - For 10 years she has looked after her three children with her career very much on the back burner.
十年来她一直都在照顾自己的三个孩子，基本上把事业搁在了一边。
- Many speculated that the US would put the peace process on the back burner...
双语例句
- That way, eurozone leaders can put Greece on the backburner and focus all their attention in preventing a far more dangerous economic crisis from taking root in Spain, Italy and France.
这样，欧元区领导人就能暂时把希腊放在一边，集中全部精力防止西班牙、意大利和法国爆发更严重的经济危机。 - Spending too much time on a project or keeping it on the backburner for too long will lead to stagnation.
花太多时间在一件事上或是不断推迟这件事都会导致停滞不前。 - Increasingly, however, scientists are finding that for health, well-being, and quality of life, flexibility should move off the backburner and to the forefront of our minds.
但是科学家们逐渐发现为了健康，幸福感和高质量的生活，身体的灵活性应该从我们思想的幕后走向台前。 - Indeed, plans for new player signings have been put on the backburner for general manager Jorge Valdano, with Perez insisting they must sort out their coaching position.
实际上，在巴尔迪诺认为签新球员只能成为补救方案之后，弗洛伦蒂诺就决定在教练位置上动手术。 - And those who struggle with a difficult question are more likely to get the wrong answer, compared with those who put it on the mental backburner, experiments show.
而实验证明，那些揪住困境不放者更有可能得出错误的答案。