N-SING 次要地位;从属地位 If you put an issue on the back burner, you leave it in order to deal with it later because you now consider it to have become less urgent or important. 次要地位;从属地位
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。
For 10 years she has looked after her three children with her career very much on the back burner.