| 词组 | agree |
| 释义 | agree 1. Numerous handbooks from as long ago as 1917 to the 1980s tell us that agree takes various prepositions idiomatically in various senses. The prepositions to, on, and with are most frequently mentioned, but some sources—chiefly older ones—mention others. Here is a selection of typical constructions with various prepositions; of all these only in seems to be showing signs of age. • ... the company agreed to mediation —Current Biography, June 1953 • ... members of the Swedish Academy failed to agree on a candidate —Current Biography 1951 • ... they were always agreed on what movie they should see —Katherine Anne Porter, Ladies' Home Jour., August 1971 • In 1831 the payment by France of outstanding claims ... was agreed upon by treaty —Francis D. Wormuth, "The Vietnam War: The President versus the Constitution," April 1968 • Christ, the boondocks of Oregon must agree with you, Stan —Lee Marvin, quoted in Rolling Stone, 21 Dec. 1972 • ... it is difficult not to agree with Byron that Pope was profoundly moved when he wrote this poem — Bonamy Dobrée, English Literature in the Early Eighteenth Century, 1700-1740, 1959 • ... he agreed with Lowell's opposition to the war — Eric F. Goldman, Harper's, January 1969 • Latin has a much better-developed system of adjective-noun concord. Every adjective must agree with its noun in three categories: number, gender, and case —H. A. Gleason, Jr., An Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics, rev. ed., 1961 • This agrees with seismic evidence —C. A. Cotton, Geographical Jour., June 1953 • Four of the nation's leading white urbanologists ... were agreed about the nature of the urban crisis — Allen B. Ballard, Change, March 1973 • ... they agreed as to the unreadiness of Italian Somaliland for political independence —Collier's Year Book, 1949 • ... no two of his admirers would be likely to agree in their selection —Bliss Perry, The Pocket University, 1924 • We agreed in our estimate of Beecham —The Journals of Arnold Bennett, ed. Frank Swinnerton, 1954 • ... as so often in morals and in motivation, the upper and lower classes agree against the middle — Basil Cottle, in Michaels & Ricks 1980 Evans 1957 reminds us that agree is also commonly followed by a clause or an infinitive phrase: • Traditional theories of esthetics agreed that coherent form emerges from the basic principle of fused elements —Frederick Goldman & Linda R. Burnett, Need Johnny Read?, 1971 • ... Deerslayer agrees to surrender his claims —Richard Poirier, A World Elsewhere, 1966 2. In British use, the transitive agree often replaces the agree on or agree to of American English. Longman 1984, Chambers 1985, and Burchfield 1982 find these uses acceptable; Gowers (in Fowler 1965) accepts agree "agree on" but not agree "agree to." Frederick T. Wood, English Verbal Idioms ( 1964), thinks the use exists only in the passive; it is, however, also active. Here are some examples. Note that you can substitute either agree on or agree to in some of them, a fact which may suggest that Gowers's distinction is a bit overcareful. • "... since this has to be, in its small way, a combined operation, we should want to agree the commander with you people." —Nevil Shute, Most Secret, 1945 • ... and after much discussion the following articles were agreed —Sir Winston Churchill, Closing the Ring, 1951 • This no doubt was what Lord Salisbury agreed at the Little Bermuda conference —New Statesman & Nation, 17 Oct. 1953 • The price has yet to be agreed —Times Literary Supp., 21 May 1970 • Some of the invaders returned to the Continent but others, after agreeing peace terms, twice raided the country south of the Thames —D. J. V. Fisher, The Anglo-Saxon Age, 1973 • On a small job you will probably have to agree a set fee with your architect —John Bath, Australian Home Beautiful, June 1975 • As the awaited seed catalogues arrive there are long discussions ... with the housekeeper to agree vegetable and herb varieties —This England, Winter 1983 This use is rare but not unknown in the U.S.: • But as happens so often with U.S.-Japan conversations, the parties departed with different impressions of what had been agreed —Sol W. Sanders, Business Week, 23 Mar. 1981 |
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