wooed

英 [wuːd]

美 [wuːd]

v.  争取…的支持; 寻求…的赞同; 追求(异性); 求爱
woo的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 寻求,争取(支持、选票等)
  If youwoopeople, you try to encourage them to help you, support you, or vote for you, for example by promising them things which they would like.
  1. They wooed customers by offering low interest rates...
     他们靠提供低息来招揽客户。
  2. They are trying to woo back electoral support.
     他们正试图赢回选民的支持。
• VERB 追求(女人);向(女人)求爱（或求婚）
  If a manwoosa woman, he spends time with her and tries to persuade her to marry him.
  1. The penniless author successfully wooed and married Fanny.
     这位一文不名的作家向范妮求爱成功，和她结了婚。

双语例句

• , wooed the ladies with his gravelly voice.
  他那沙哑的嗓音，对女性有强烈的吸引力。
• While Thompson might appear to the outside world to embody success a rising star in corporate America whom Yahoo wooed from PayPal to turn around the struggling Internet giant his own self-perception could be wildly different.
  虽然外界看来，汤普森就是成功的化身，是美国企业界一颗冉冉升起的新星，也是雅虎力争从贝宝挖来拯救这家陷入困境的互联网巨头的人选，但他的自我认知可能截然不同。
• Meeting the Parents: Justin has wooed Selena's mom, while Rob has taken the big step of spending Thanksgiving with Kristen's folks!
  见父母：贾斯汀已经要求过要见赛琳娜的母亲，而罗伯特则迈了更大一步，已经和克里斯汀一家一起过了感恩节了。
• Abe, immediately smitten, wooed her with flowers, and they married in1987.
  安倍很快迷恋上了昭惠，向她送花求爱，两人最终在1987年成婚。
• Russia has systematically wooed gas producers, including Iran, Nigeria, Libya, Algeria and Qatar.
  俄罗斯系统性地争取到了伊朗、尼日利亚、利比亚、阿尔及利亚和卡塔尔等天然气生产国的支持。
• Officials who once wooed foreign investors increasingly balk at approving new deals.
  那些力图吸引外国投资者的官员，也越来越不敢批准新的交易。
• Shields wooed a skeptical crowd with moves like'the body flag,'in which he gripped the pole with his hands and stretched his body out horizontally.
  他双手握住钢管，让身体伸展开来，与地面平行，将“扯旗”动作展现在将信将疑的观众面前。
• Words have wooed yet failed to win her; persuasion has stretched to her its eager arms in vain.
  无数求爱的话，都已说过，但还没有赢得她的心；劝诱向她伸出渴望的臂，也是枉然。
• In ancient China, fiction emerged as a literary style that contradicted the sense of the world of orthodox styles but was repelled or "wooed" by them.
  在中国古代，小说一开始就是作为与正统文体之世界感相对立的文体而出现的，并受到正统文体意识的排斥或拉拢。
• He wooed four girls before finally marrying one.
  他在结婚之前曾向四个姑娘求过婚。