Instead, governing took a back seat to performing.

相反，管理让位于了表演。

Libya is the first alliance campaign where America took a back seat.

利比亚战役是美国首次退居二线的联盟战役。

Research took a back seat to the immediate threat of the fires.

面对大火的直接威胁，她们将研究暂时放下。

That's it Feifei. Let's hear from some other people who are 'taking a back seat'…

没错，菲菲。我们来听些例句，看看还有谁放弃了控制权。

Mary was happy to take a back seat and let Jim run the meeting.

玛丽很高兴能退居次要位置，让吉姆来负责会议。

Oh nothing. I'm just going to a take a back seat today. You carry on, I'll just watch.

什么都不做。我今天要让权给你。你继续吧，我只是看着。

Now he's getting older he's decided to take a back seat in running the company.

他年事已高，所以他决定退居二线，让出公司的经营权。

And if you take a back seat to someone or something you have assumed the secondary position of importance to them.

如果你让位于某人或者针对某事退居二线（take a back seat to someone or something），那么你对他们来说就处于次要地位了。

If the Facebook network is to take a back seat, there may be a case for regrouping under a new name.

如果说Facebook社交网络要退居次位，或许就有理由用一个新名称进行重组了。

It'll force the elections to take a back seat.

让我们的选举无人问津。

I know it's hard for you to take a back seat.

我知道让你暂时抽身非常困难。

Research took a back seat to the immediate threat of the fires.

瓦尔坦：研究在火灾的直接威胁面前退居二线。

Foreign policy will take a back seat to domestic problems for a while.

【seat】外交政策暂时要排在国内问题之后了。

We have to manage all kinds of different stresses and sometimes your English practice has to take a back seat and that's okay.

我们必须处理各种不同的压力，有时你的英语练习不得不退居二线，这是没有关系的。

And you know what, for a pIayer on the national team, personal affairs are supposed to take a back seat to training and competitions.

而且，你知道吗，对于一名国家队的队员，个人私事必须让位于训练和比赛。

Because I'm a star, they just automatically assume that I'm not humble enough to sit down and take a back seat which I am.

就因为我是明星，大家就都理所当然地认为我不肯放下身份，甘愿退居次席。实际上，我是愿意的。

Even still, it almost took a back seat to the actual experience of just being in that noisy, chaotic room, literally surrounded by Katz's history.

即便如此，坐在这个嘈杂混乱的房间内，坐在实际体验的位子上，就已经被凯茨的整个历史所包围。

Oh I get it! 'To take a back seat' is an idiom that means to give up control and let someone else take responsibility.

哦，我明白了！这个习语的意思是放弃控制权，让其他人来负责。

Voltaire's God had created the world, instilled in us a sense of good and evil and then basically taken a back seat.

伏尔泰的上帝创造了世界，向我们灌输了善恶观念， 然后基本上退居二线。

Take a back seat? Hmmm — so you're going to let me take control — do all the work — while you sit there and watch?

坐在后座上？嗯，所以你是让我来掌控所有的事情，而你只是坐在那里看吗？