agreement
/əˈgriːmənt/noun
mass noun
1- harmony or accordance in opinion or feeling; a position or result of agreeing协调一致, 同意; 一致意见:
the governments failed to reach agreement
各政府没有达成一致意见
the two officers nodded in agreement
两位官员点头同意
there is wide agreement that investment is necessary.
普遍同意有必要投资。
1.1
- count noun a negotiated and typically legally binding arrangement between parties as to a course of action合同, 协定, 契约:
a trade agreement
贸易协定
a verbal agreement to sell.
口头销售协定。
1.2
- the absence of incompatibility between two things; consistency相容, 一致:
agreement between experimental observations and theory.
试验观察结果和理论的一致性。
1.3
- Grammar the condition of having the same number, gender, case, and/or person as another word【语法】(词之间性、数、格、人称的)呼应, 一致。
词源
late Middle English: from Old French, from agreer 'make agreeable to' (see AGREE).