front burner

1. N-SING 优先地位;主要地位
   If an issue is on the front burner, it receives a lot of attention because it is considered to be more urgent or important than other issues.
   1. It helps to put an important issue back on the front burner...
      它有助于让一个重要问题重新引起关注。
   2. We have an urgent front-burner public health problem.
      我们有一个迫在眉睫、需要优先处理的公共卫生问题。

1. It helps to put an important issue back on the front burner
   它有助于让一个重要问题重新引起关注。
2. With the economy taking a tumble, things improving by some measures in Iraq and much attention riveted on the2008 presidential race, Iraq has faded from the front burner.
   随着经济的缓坡以及在伊拉克采取的一些改进措施，公众已将视线转移到2008年总统大选。伊拉克问题已经淡出人们的视线。
3. It is reported in this paper that the ignition front of the pulverized coal and air stream in a laboratory scale single burner furnace is separated from its background by an image processing system.
   本文通过一个图像采集与处理系统，将单角试验炉煤粉射流着火火焰锋面从背景中分离出来。
4. The ignition distance is defined as the shortest distance of the flame front to the outlet of the burner, and the experiments show that the average ignition distance is shortened obviously as the coal concentration increases for a kind of bituminous coal.
   将火焰锋面到燃烧器出口的最近距离定义为着火距离，对一种烟煤的试验研究结果表明，随着煤粉浓度的提高，其平均着火距离明显缩短。
5. The results show that gas and air are mixed and burned rapidly with air spinning in the burner tile and near the front of the burner tile, and a central back flow region is formed.
   研究结果表明，在旋流作用下，在火盆及其前端附近区域内形成了中心回流区，使燃气与助燃空气在此处发生剧烈掺混而被点燃，这有利于火焰稳定。

noun

1. top priority
   1. the work was moved to the front burner in order to meet deadlines