Wednesday, April 7, 2010

"approve" vs. "approve of"

approve: 승인하다. (공식적)
approve of: 용인하다. 승락하다.

Approve means to grant official consent to something. You usually get someone to approve your idea/plan/project before you start implementing it. To approve of something is to agree with it, often in an ethical, religious or moral sense. Here are some examples with a little more context.

If you want to hire more accountants, you will need to get HR to approve that first.
The manager is required to approve all new accounts.
My father does not approve of my dating him, but I don't care.
We would like to abandon some of our old traditions, but our priest would never approve of that.

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