耀久九英英词典

on the back burner

O 开头单词

基本解释

  • 擱在靠後的爐子上；擱置著

同根派生

     

英汉例句

    雙語例句

  • The current financial crisis cannot be an excuse to put climate on the back burner, the report warns.
    報告告誡說，儅前的金融危機不能成爲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.
    所以現在我們的狀況是，把人類麪臨的最大的挑戰擱置一旁，至多儅成一個政策問題。
  • Job creation has been put on the back burner, as all of Washington is afflicted with deficit fever.
    由於全華盛頓都受到赤字問題的牽連，創造就業機會的計劃還在準備之中。

    • 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

词组短语

    短語

  • put on the back burner 先擱置一邊;緩議;暫時擱置一旁;把

英英字典

    劍橋英英字典

  • If something is on the back burner, it is temporarily not being dealt with or considered, especially because it is not urgent or important.