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take a back seat to accept a less important position than someone or something else居次要地位; 退居二线:•Finally, Bryant decided to take a back seat and let his son run the company.最后，布赖恩特决定退居二线，让儿子来管理公司。 take a back seat take or be given a less important position or role 居于次要位置： in future he would take a back seat in politics. 将来他在政治上就会屈居人下了。 take a back seatto allow sb else to play a more active and important role in a particular situation than you do允许他人领先；甘愿居于人下；退居幕后take a back seataccept a poorer or lower position; be second to sth. or sb. else; take second place 接受较差或较低的位置；成为次要的人或事情；退居其次 * With no hope of winning, he had to take a back seat in the contest. 眼看自己在比赛中无望获胜，他只得甘拜下风。 * During the war all manufacturing had to take a back seat to military needs. 在战争期间，一切生产都要服从军事需要。 |