side issue

英 [ˈsaɪd ɪʃuː]

美 [ˈsaɪd ɪʃuː]

n.  次要问题

法律

牛津词典

noun

• 次要问题
  an issue that is less important than the main issue, and may take attention away from it

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 次要问题;枝节问题
  Aside issueis an issue or subject that is not considered to be as important as the main one.
  1. I must forget these side issues and remember my mission.
     我必须忘掉这些枝节问题，记住我的使命。

双语例句

• Don't divert the subject into a side issue.
  别把话题转向枝节问题。
• I realized on which side of the issue I stood. Therefore, one's body knows the truth of one's existence, and the body knows the answers to all questions that one may have surrounding one's own predicament.
  我知道自己在这个问题上所采取的立因此，一个人的身体知道真相，身体知道你所在困境的所有问题的答案。
• The official said the US side continued to raise the issue to China and he believed that China was taking measures to resolve these issues.
  这位官员说，美国方面继续向中国提出这一问题，他相信中国也正在采取措施解决这些问题。
• On the other side of the issue are European nations, Japan, Australia and Canada, all of which tax people within their borders but exempt most expatriates and overseas subsidiaries from paying income taxes in their home countries.
  欧洲国家、日本、澳大利亚和加拿大属于另一个阵营，这些国家在本国境内向公民课税，但是它们对大多数外派人员和海外子公司，豁免了本国国内的所得税。
• After years in which many Chinese dismissed concerns about air quality or counted smog as an inevitable side effect of development, the issue is now central to middle class concerns.
  多年以来，许多中国人并不在意空气质量引起的担忧，或认为雾霾是发展不可避免的副作用，而现在这一问题已成了中国中产阶层担心的焦点。
• On the liability side, the central bank can issue its own debt or simply borrow from the banks.
  至于负债方面，央行可自行发债或直接从银行借入资金。
• Therefore, how to reduce the passenger injury against side collision accident and how to improve vehicle crash performance against the side has become a hot issue in current automotive industry.
  如何在侧碰事故中减小乘员的损伤，提高汽车车身的侧面抗撞性能已经成为当今汽车工业研究领域的热点和难点问题。
• He might be able to attract a few fans from his mother country by acting the way he is now, but soon, they will see the deeper side to the issue and turn their backs on him.
  或许通过在自己的国家扮演现在的角色，装可怜，可以吸引到一些FANS，但是这些FANS慢慢的会看到他隐藏的另外一面而背弃他。
• The topic of gender equitable education is one that for far too long has been relegated to a "side issue", and there are also some misunderstandings about it in society.
  摘要性别平等教育长期被视作教育中的次要问题，教育学界对此也存在不少误解。
• The author concludes there are two primary reasons to cause the current living situation of migrants; on one side, the self-generated issue of migrant farm workers.
  笔者认为农民工居住现状主要是由于两方面的原因所造成的：一方面是由于农民工自身的原因。