【问】 《远东英汉大辞典》、《新英汉辞典》均指出：to agree with somebody，to agree to some-thing。这种说法是否准确?
 【答】 这是一个在我国英语学界被普遍接受的观点。但是，你在下面的大量例句中将会看到，agree with与agree to的区别，并不在于它们所接的宾语不同(接人或接物)，而在于它们具有不同的语义。现代英美语言学家们已对agree with与agree to在意义上的细微差别作了明确的辩析。
 agree with是指出自主观愿望的“赞成”、“同意"(have the same opinion)，例如：
 1. She agreed with this idea.
 她赞成这个主意。
 2. I don't agree with a single word that you have said. (Wilde)
 你所说的每句话我都不赞成。
 3. I agree with his views. (RWRT)
 我同意他的观点。
 4. They might not agree with his opinions. (Walpole)
 他们可能不赞成他的观点。
 5. He has sometimes agreed with things I have said to him. (Sinclair)
 有时候他赞成我对他说的话。
 6. I agree with what you said.
 我赞同你所说的。
 7. This is an opinion with which I do not agree，however. (Haley)
 但是，这是一个我不能赞同的观点。
 8. Our African servants agreed with our choice.
 我们的非洲仆人同意我们的选择。
 9. I completely agree with your views on Marx. (PEU)
 我完全同意你对马克思的看法。
 agree to则是指“接受、认可”，常常指并非出于主观愿望的“同意”。正象ALD所说，a-gree to尤指不乐意或争论之后的同意(to accept an idea，opinion，etc. ，esp. after unwilling-ness or argument)。RWRT有一句话颇能帮助我们区分agree with与agree to：“你可能agreeto一个政策，然而并不一定agree with它。”
 1. He agrees to all your proposals except the last.
 他接受你所有的建议，但最后一条除外。
 2. I find it impossible to agree to your terms. (CIE)
 我认为不可能接受你们的条件。
 3. She can’t agree to your demands.
 她不可能接受你的要求。
 4. He was forced to agree to the proposals though he did not like them. (Wood)
 他被迫接受了这些建议，尽管他并不喜欢它们。
 5. The siege dispersed by midnight that same night and we agreed to the students’ demandthat Borchardt be made dean of students. (Lawrence)
 就在同一天的午夜，围攻请愿的人散去了。我们接受了学生们的要求，让博哈特当学生会主席。
 请做下面的英语试题：
 We want him to retire but he won’t____to it.
 A. accept B. admit C. agree D.allow(Nelson，450D)