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■ down the road

意思原先是“顺着路走下去”。

  • Suddenly they saw a traveller coming down the road, and the Sun said, “I see a way to decide our dispute. (…)” (Aesop Fables)忽然他们看见一个旅客一路走过来,于是太阳就说:“我找到了解决咱们争执的办法了。(…)”
  • They had walked some way and it was now night, but they could see a large iron gate a little way farther down the road on their left.(Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out)他们走了一些路,现在已经天黑了,但是他们还能够看到自己左边前面稍远处有一座大铁门。
  • He walked down the road and went into one or two liquor shops, staying for nearly half-an-hour in the last of them.(Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet)他顺着路走下去,进去了一两家卖酒的店,在最末一家停留了将近半个钟头。

但是 down the road 也可以从空间的意义转到时间的意义,表示“今后”(有对今后可能如何不能预测的口气)。

  • If... we will pay a terrible price down the road.如果…的话,我们今后会付出可怕的代价。
  • We may at some point buy a house but that's down the road.我们有朝一日会买一栋房子,但那是后话了。
  • This is a wonderful invention, but a marketable product is several years down the road.这个发明很了不起,但是要成为能销售的产品,那是几年以后的事了。
  • I was asked to gather statistical data that could be useful down the road.他们叫我收集统计数字,日后可能有用。
  • The White House insists the package(of tax cuts) will stimulate the economy, but Democrats warn that consumers will pay down the road. (US News & World Report, June 2, 2003, p.13)白宫坚持说这套措施将刺激经济,但是民主党人提出警告,说今后要由消费者付出代价(注意:pay 与 down 不能连起来)。

但是空间的意义仍然保留一些痕迹。

  • If ever, someplace down the road, you and I differ on a matter of judgment that's important, you have my permission to remind me of this incident, and that your judgment was right and mine wrong.今后的某个时候,如果你我在一个重大的判断问题上意见相左,我允许你拿这件事件来提醒我,指出你的判断正确而我的判断错误(这里用 someplace 而不用 sometime,但指的是时间,可见是借用空间表示时间)。
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