| 释义 | 
		back-burnerˈback-ˌburner, back‧bur‧ner /ˈbækˌbɜːnə $ -ˌbɜːrnər/ verb [transitive] informal    VERB TABLEback-burner |
 | Present | I, you, we, they | back-burner |   | he, she, it | back-burners |  | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | back-burnered |  | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have back-burnered |   | he, she, it | has back-burnered |  | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had back-burnered |  | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will back-burner |  | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have back-burnered |  
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 | Present | I | am back-burnering |   | he, she, it | is back-burnering |   | you, we, they | are back-burnering |  | Past | I, he, she, it | was back-burnering |   | you, we, they | were back-burnering |  | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been back-burnering |   | he, she, it | has been back-burnering |  | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been back-burnering |  | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be back-burnering |  | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been back-burnering |  
     to delay doing something, because it does not need your attention immediately or because it is not as important as other things that you need to do immediately:   Allison back-burnered her prestigious law career when she had a baby.  The project has been backburnered. →  leave/put something on the back burner at burner(3)  |