You need to take a back seat and think about both past and future.

你需要退居次位思考过去和将来。

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But that does not mean coercion should now take a back seat to persuasion, Mr. Nye argues.

奈伊先生提出，但这并不意味着现在高压政治手段应该让位于宗教信仰。

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If you're in a race to get your application developed and deployed, long-term maintainability can take a back seat to getting something to work.

如果在应用程序开发和部署方面存在竞争，那么长期可维护性可能被放在比较次要的地位。

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Republicans would need a 40-seat gain in November to take back majority control in the U.S.House of Representatives.

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This may be a situation where your goal of communicating a message well has to take a back seat to saving your own job.

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But for organizations that need to change and quickly pursue new strategies, leaders must thrive, and they can only do so in a more dynamic environment, where traditional reporting structures take a back seat to good ideas, and where all individuals, regardless of rank, have the opportunity to help move the company where it wants and needs to go.

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Mr Veltroni was, it is true, constantly undermined by Massimo D'Alema, a PD baron and former prime minister whose refusal to take a back seat weakened the centre-left.

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