为了达到个人目的，他把集体利益置之脑后。

To accomplish his own end, he placed collective interests in the back of his mind.

为了把一个国家搞乱，于是极力强调几个罪犯的权力，而把广大善良人民的权力置之脑后。

To make a country be in turmoil, people spared no effort to put the right of a few criminals to the Paramount, but forgot the right of the broad masses of kind people.

如果CERN的实验结论稍有庇误，就会迅速被人们置之脑后，但如果实验天衣无缝的话，等待我们的将是人类认知的惊人未来。

If a glitch is found in CERN's result, the whole thing will rapidly be swept under the carpet and forgotten. If there is no glitch, an astonishing future of understanding beckons.