1. 许可;允许
    If you give your consent to something, you give someone permission to do it.

consent的反义词

    e.g. At approximately 11:30 p.m., Pollard finally gave his consent to the search...
           大概晚上11点半的时候，波拉德最终同意进行搜查。
    e.g. Can my child be medically examined without my consent?
           能不经我的同意就对我的孩子进行体检吗？

2. 同意;允许
    If you consent to something, you agree to do it or to allow it to be done.

    e.g. He finally consented to go...
           他最终同意去了。
    e.g. He asked Ginny if she would consent to a small celebration after the christening...
           他问金尼是否同意在洗礼之后小小地庆祝一下。

3. see also: age of consent

4. 经一致同意;经双方同意
    If something happens by common consent or by mutual consent, it happens as the result of an agreement between the people or groups involved.

    e.g. By common consent their talk avoided the reason for their being there at all...
           双方达成共识，他们的谈话对他们去那儿的原因完全避而不谈。
    e.g. He left the company by mutual consent last September.
           去年9月，经双方同意，他离开了公司。

5. 经普遍同意
    You can use by general consent or by common consent to indicate that most people agree that something is true.

    e.g. By common consent this election constituted a historic step on the road to democracy.
           普遍认为这次选举是迈上民主之路的历史性一步。