b)CONTROLsomeone in business or politics who tries to control things that they are not really responsible for 〔商业或政治上〕干涉与自己职责无关的事情的人,多管闲事的人
3take a back seatto accept a less important position than someone or something else 退居次要地位,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。
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take a back seat• He notes, however, that economicconsiderations are taking a back seat to budgetnegotiations.• It was also a year when investmentbankerstook a back seat.• That her family had taken a back seat in her life.• Mr Peters has now taken a back seat.• If you can't agree to disagree, then take a back seat and let others have their way on this occasion.• Women have often been forced to take a back seat in society.• But when they were introduced, everything upstairs had to take a back seat.• Many feel reluctant to take a back seat and allow their children to enjoy the special attractiveness of the teens and twenties.• And very generally, the interests of lenders in New York take a back seat to the interests of the corporateborrowers.
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back seat• But when they were introduced, everything upstairs had to take a back seat.• Many feel reluctant to take a back seat and allow their children to enjoy the special attractiveness of the teens and twenties.• So when Andrew started seeing Sarah, the Princess took a back seat.• He puts me in the back seat with my coat over my knees.• She and Jack were in the back seat and Fogarty was driving.• She pulled-him out slowly as Miguel grabbed the box and tossed it into the back seat.• Reno unfolded herself, pushed her bulk out of the car, and peeled her dresses off the back seat.• Flustered, she reversed, and the groceries she had bought enroute fell off the back seat and flopped to the floor.