back burner

1. 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。
2. 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。
3. As long as the Greek crisis stays on the back burner, the dollar looks unlikely to give up its lead spot in the race lower.
   只要希腊危机不爆发，美元在赶底过程中就不太可能丢掉领先地位。
4. For me, one goal that's been on the back burner for years is returning to writing short fiction.
   比如，多年来我排在非紧要位置的一个计划是重新开始写作短篇小说。
5. Stop putting your own needs on the back burner.
   不要把自己的需求置之脑后。
6. When youre older and in a committed relationship or marriage, there will be times when you need to put your own wants on the back burner and let your spouse reach some of their personal goals.
   当你成长了、结婚了，有时候你需要把自己的需求放在一边，让你的另一半实现他/她的目标。
7. 36. Always put your own needs on the back burner.
   36.永远把自己的需求放在最后一位。
8. Put financial speculation with family members or friends on the back burner for now.
   暂时停止你与家人或朋友的金融投机活动。
9. Too often, exercise and healthy habits get put on the back burner when you are busy.
   因为工作忙碌，所以锻炼和健康习惯总是被搁置，相信这你已经经历过很多次了。
10. It is easy to back burner the undesirable tasks and those are the ones – always unfinished or rushed – that get us into trouble.
    往往是那些我们不想做或未完成或匆匆了事的任务容易给我们带来麻烦。
11. She decided to attend Harvard, where she would study political theory and put her acting career on the back burner.
    她决定到哈佛攻读政治理论，暂时放下她的演艺事业。
12. Something urgent has come up, so we put your project on the back burner temporarily.
    有紧急事件发生，所以我们把你的计划暂时搁置。
13. With unwritten cultural rules like that, she said, it's no wonder marriage gets put on the back burner.
    在这不成文的文化规则下，她说，难怪婚姻被搁置。
14. It helped him get a job at Goldman in a few months, so he put the project on the back burner.
    几个月后，他在Goldman公司得到了一份工作，因而他把这个项目放在次要地位。
15. I'm afraid that means we'll have to put our plans to buy a bigger house on the back burner until next year.
    所以我们想买栋大房子的计划恐怕不得不等到明年再说了。
16. LH: So that's on the back burner an English album for the time being.
    韩：所以发行英文专辑，此刻还不是很居先的考虑？
17. Let's put that one on the back burner and get back to it later.
    我们暂时把这个问题搁一搁，以后再谈吧。
18. The whole project has been put on the back burner.
    整顿工程已久置于不优先地位。
19. If you're nervous about giving a presentation that you've been preparing for days, tell yourself to set those fears on the back burner for20 minutes to two hours.
    如果你为准备了几天的演讲而担心，告诉自己让这些恐惧推迟20分钟或2小时。
20. She says she has put all her other projects on the back burner for a while until she finishes writing her new novel.
    她说，在她的新长篇小说脱稿之前，她把其他的一切事情都束之高阁了。
21. Interviewer: I've read that you put your career on the back burner and allowed his career to be more impoetant to you than your own.
    记者：我听闻你曾把自己的事业放在次要的地位，而让他的事业比你自己的更重视。
22. Is putting your stuff on the back burner.
    没有优先做你的事情。
23. Both sides need to put this dispute on the back burner where it belongs.
    中日双方都应将这场争端束之高阁，那里才是它该待的地方。
24. She goes on the back burner.
    她靠近了你这个幕后黑手。
25. You should put that project on the back burner.
    这个工程你应该先放一边。
26. It's Iike the back burner doesn't work at all.
    就像一个火炉根本不能用。
27. Analysts also say that, in the past year, economic issues have been put on the back burner as the government focuses its energies on fighting allegations of huge official corruption.
    分析人士也指出，过去一年，经济问题已被置于脑后，印度政府专注于应对官员腐败问题。
28. It's been almost three years. Don't you have anyone on the back burner that you've been hiding from me?
    已经三年了。你是不是已经有人了还没来得及带出来给我看？
29. Plans for a new sports complex have been put on the back burner.
    修建一座体育馆的计划不得不延后。

noun

1. reduced priority
   1. dozens of cases were put on the back burner