
on the back burner 擱置,暫停,處于次要地位
on the back burner的意思是擱置,處于次要地位.由on the back burner的原意:擱在靠后的爐子上(靠邊站)引申而來.
She decided to attend Harvard, where she would study political theory and put her acting career on the back burner.
她決定到哈佛攻讀政治理論,暫時放下她的演藝事業.
Something urgent has come up, so we put your project on the back burner temporarily.
有緊急事件發生,所以我們把你的計劃暫時擱置.