agreeable

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a·gree·a·ble /əˈɡriːəbəl/ adjectiveadj

1 NICE written or old-fashioned pleasant 宜人的；愉快的 OPP disagreeable

We spent a most agreeable couple of hours.

我们非常愉快地度过了几个小时。

an agreeable young man

一个讨人喜欢的年轻人

2 be agreeable to something formalWILLING to be willing to do something or willing to allow something to be done 同意某事

My parents are quite agreeable to my studying abroad.

我父母很同意我去国外留学。

Examples from the Corpus

be agreeable to something• He was agreeable to a request to help the Republican senator out.• Olga and Boyd Stych are going to be blamed, because everyone will think they were agreeable to its publication.• They want an outcome that is agreeable to both countries.• They were agreeable to look at, Converse thought.• My grandmother was agreeable to marrying Gaetano.• If those conditions were fulfilled, the father was agreeable to pay.• If you are agreeable to the suggestion, the financial arrangements need not be a barrier to you.• This analysis proceeds on the assumption that resource suppliers are agreeable to these adjustments.• Her general practitioner was agreeable to this plan.

3 acceptable 可以接受的

agreeable to

The main objective is to find a solution that is agreeable to the company in terms of cost.

主要目标是找出一个从成本来说对公司合算的解决方案。

—agreeably adverbadv

I think you’ll be agreeably surprised by what I’m going to say.

我想我下面说的话会给你一个惊喜。

Examples from the Corpus

agreeable• A man quite simply can not now father a baby unless his wife is fully and deliberately agreeable.• That contact was not always peaceful and agreeable.• an agreeable comedy• I found him a most agreeable man, a sharp observer, and the possessor of intellectual attainments of no mean order.• The Captain's Table provided an agreeable meal, with attentive service.• an agreeable solution• He is easy and unreserved among acquaintance, and has a most agreeable style of conversation.• My grandmother was agreeable to marrying Gaetano.• If those conditions were fulfilled, the father was agreeable to pay.• You will be telephoned, if you are agreeable, with details of properties just received on to the market.

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