agree: [14] Originally, if a thing ‘agreed you’, it was to your liking, it pleased you. This early meaning survives in the adjective agreeable [14], but the verb has meanwhile moved on via ‘to reconcile (people who have quarrelled)’ and ‘to come into accord’ to its commonest presentday sense, ‘to concur’. It comes from Old French agréer ‘to please’, which was based on the phrase a gré ‘to one’s liking’. Gré was descended from Latin grātum, a noun based on grātus ‘pleasing’, from which English also gets grace and grateful. => congratulate, grace, grateful, gratitude
agree (v.)
late 14c., "to be to one's liking;" also "to give consent," from Old French agreer "to receive with favor, take pleasure in" (12c.), from phrase a gré "favorably, of good will," literally "to (one's) liking," from Latin ad "to" (see ad-) + gratum "pleasing," neuter of gratus (see grace (n.)); the original sense survives best in agreeable. Meaning "to be in harmony in opinions" is from late 15c. Related: Agreed; agreeing.
双语例句
1. The dampness of the forest did not agree with him physically.
他的身体不能适应森林的潮湿。
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2. It remains to be seen whether her parliamentary colleagues will agree.
她的国会同僚是否同意，现在还无从知晓。
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3. I think you'd agree he's a very respected columnist.
我想你得承认他是个备受尊敬的专栏作家。
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4. You and I are going to have to agree to disagree then.
那你我只能各自保留不同意见了。
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5. They had little choice but to agree to what he suggested.
