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

• 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。
• 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。
• Don't divert the subject into a side issue.
  别把话题转向枝节问题。
• The flip side of the issue is that our greatest moral obligation is to the living.
  另一方面我们最高尚的道德义务就是保护活着的人免遭痛苦。
• 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。
• Scholars are studying the duration of trade relations from the microcosmic side to solve this issue.
  为解决这个问题，许多学者开始进行国际贸易微观层面上对贸易关系持续时间的研究。
• Secondly, the lower creditworthiness level in underdeveloped areas is the demand side issue.
  第二，市场非完备地区农民信用水平低下是制约信贷健康发展的需求面因素；
• Adventitious root is an important issue both on the theoretical aspect of plant development and organogenesis and on the practical side of plant propagation and excised issue or organ regeneration.
  不定根发生问题，既是植物无性繁殖和工厂化育苗实践的核心问题，又是植物发育和形态建成等方面的重要理论问题。
• I think that's rather a side issue, don't you?
  我认为这是比较次要的问题，你说是不是？
• 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。