on the back burner

常见例句

双语例句

• The current financial crisis cannot be an excuse to put climate on the back burner, the report warns.
  报告告诫说，当前的金融危机不能成为把气候问题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.
  所以现在我们的状况是，把人类面临的最大的挑战搁置一旁，至多当成一个政策问题。
• 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。

原声例句

• 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.

权威例句

• 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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