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N-UNCOUNT
許可;允許
If you give your consent to something, you give someone permission to do it.
例句
At approximately 11:30 p.m., Pollard finally gave his consent to the search...
大概晚上11點半的時候，波拉德最終同意進行搜查。
Can my child be medically examined without my consent?
能不經我的同意就對我的孩子進行體檢嗎？
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VERB
同意;允許
If you consent to something, you agree to do it or to allow it to be done.
例句
He finally consented to go...
他最終同意去了。
He asked Ginny if she would consent to a small celebration after the christening...
他問金尼是否同意在洗禮之后小小地慶祝一下。
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PHRASE
經一致同意;經雙方同意
If something happens by common consent or by mutual consent, it happens as the result of an agreement between the people or groups involved.
例句
By common consent their talk avoided the reason for their being there at all...
雙方達成共識，他們的談話對他們去那兒的原因完全避而不談。
He left the company by mutual consent last September.
去年9月，經雙方同意，他離開了公司。
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PHRASE
經普遍同意
You can use by general consent or by common consent to indicate that most people agree that something is true.
例句
By common consent this election constituted a historic step on the road to democracy.
普遍認為這次選舉是邁上民主之路的歷史性一步。