back seat

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of the seats in the rear of a vehicle.
    — 2011, Rebecca Black featuring Patrice Wilson, Friday Gotta catch my bus, I see my friends Kickin' in the front seat Sittin' in the back seat Gotta make my mind up Which seat can I take?
  2. A lesser or inferior position; a position of deliberate noninvolvement, in which decision-making or leadership is left to others. especially,informal
    — The bluntness of King Vajiralongkorn's intervention—and the determination it reveals to resist relatively small checks on royal power—is both a snub to the junta and a worry for democrats, some of whom had dared hope that the new king might be happy to take a back seat in public life.

词形变化

back seats plural back-seat alternative backseat alternative

词源

From back + seat.
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