英语常用词疑难用法-39:agree
(1) 同意(某人的意见)(瞬时的表示或延续的看法),只需说agree with somebody即可,不必说出“意见”,在什么事情上同意用on引入。
I entirely agree with you on that matter. 我在那件事情上完全同意你的意见。同意的实质内容可以用that从句来表示。
I agree with you that he is wrong. 我同你一样认为他是错了。如果要明确说明同意某人的什么,也可以说agree with something。
agree with what they are doing赞成他们所做的事
I agree with political scientist Morris Florina's thesis that... (Times, Oct. 30, 2006, p. 8) 我同意政治学家莫里斯·弗洛林纳的主张...而同意(某一做法,不是某一意见),要说agree to something(通常是瞬时动作,但也可以是延续状态)。
agree to the use of force同意使用武力
They agreed to John's marrying Julie. 他们同意了约翰娶朱丽。但是在争论或审议议案的过程中(而不是在日常的意见交流中),赞同某人的方案或主张,也可以说agree to something。
I agree to Mr. Johnson's proposal. 我赞成约翰逊先生的提案(可单方)。Agree to的主语也可以是双方,而且可以用被动语态(瞬时动作或延续状态)。
It was agreed to that they would meet again soon. 他们约定不久之后再次会面。
(2) 表示同意(自己将来做某事)(瞬时动作),可后面接动词不定式。
She had agreed to let us use her apartment while she was away. 她同意了当她不在的时候让我们用她的公寓房(可单方)。
但是由于这是“同意将来做某事”,所以后面的动词不定式只能是to inf.,而不能是to have pp。不可以用to have pp来表示“一致认为自己过去如何”,例如不可以说:*They all agree to have seen UFOs,而要用下面3. 的格式,说:They all agree that they have seen UFOs. 他们一致认为自己看见过不明飞行物体。
(3) 一致认为(双方、多方)(对客观情况加以评判)(瞬时动作或延续状态均可),后面可以接上that名词从句作为直接宾语。
The World Health Organization and US health authorities agree that exposure to movies with smoking leads kids to smoke. 世界卫生组织和美国卫生当局一致认为,儿童接触有吸烟镜头的电影,容易被引导去吸烟。
(4) 就某个问题或事项(用on或upon引入)表示或达成一致看法(瞬时行动或延续状态均可)。
Few doctors agree on how you treat schizophrenia. 如何治疗精神分裂症,很少医生有一致的看法。
As the jurymen could not agree upon one of the vital points at issue, it has been transferred to another jury. 由于陪审员对涉及的一个重大问题无法达成一致,案子转到了另一个陪审团那里。
Even legislators who wrote the bill setting up the intel czar's office can't agree on how it should work.(Newsweek, Oct. 10, 2006, p. 8) 就连那些起草成立情报沙皇办公室的立法议员们,对于该办公室该如何工作,也无法达成一致意见。
(5) agree与be agreed有时意义相同(但be agreed只能是延续状态)。
All the unions are agreed on this point. 所有工会在这一点上都意见一致。
We were agreed that business morals nowadays were very low. 我们大家一致认为,今天的商业道德很低(关于主被动同义,还可以参看worry与be worried)。