单词 | down the road |
释义 | > as lemmasdown the road (also track) P4. Originally U.S. colloquial. down the road (also track): further on in time; esp. in the future. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > different time > [adverb] > at some future time or one day yeteOE hereafter1154 hereafterwardc1386 sometimec1386 oncea1393 whiloma1400 rather or latera1450 one of these daysa1470 one day1477 umquhile1489 in timea1500 with time?1531 sooner or later1577 odd shortly1681 some summer's day1697 first or last1700 some of these (‥) days1831 someday1898 down the road (also track)1924 1924 Glenwood (Iowa) Opinion 5 Mar. (Special Farm Bureau ed.) Men of pioneer souls, men with vision, men who could see fifty years down the road. 1964 Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 17 Nov. (1970) 204 It was a sad good-by for all of us. But one good thing, we know we'll always be seeing each other down the road. 1979 Arizona Daily Star 22 July i. 1/4 My dream is that sometime down the road we'll have students from all the nations of the world in this really non-political, non-sectarian framework. 1984 R. T. Golembiewski in R. T. Golembiewski & A. Wildavsky Costs of Federalism xviii. 291 What might well be on my mind some years down the track. 1999 KMT Winter 3/1 But it still surprises me that, ten years down the road, even some Egyptologists still persist in calling the publication ‘Kay Em Tee’. 2005 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 15 Oct. 17/1 Now, five years down the track, he has his first major crop. 2015 Swimming Times Apr. 6/3 The plan is to stay in the US right now, but down the road, who knows where it will take us? < as lemmas |
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