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

• I just know that when you wooed me.
  我只知道你向我求婚时。
• 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。
• After graduating, bright students are often wooed away from science and engineering to jobs in business and finance.
  毕业之后，聪明的学生常常被吸引从科学与工程转向了商业与金融工作。
• The prospect of higher valuations has wooed Chinese Internet entrepreneurs to NASDAQ and resource companies to Singapore.
  得到更高估值的可能性，吸引了中国的互联网企业到纳斯达克上市，资源公司赴新加坡上市。
• Journalists no longer need to be wooed.
  记者不再是需要拉拢的群体。
• 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。
• So it seems they may have wooed multiple mates, and were then left in charge of a veritable dinosaur day care center, filled with their various girlfriends'eggs.
  所以看起来它们可能追求了很多的“伴侣”，随后它们就负责掌管一个实实在在的恐龙“幼儿园”&这里充满了它们不同“女友”的恐龙蛋。
• It was in this old, primitive way that Martin wooed Ruth.
  马丁就是以这种古老的原始的方式向露丝求爱的。
• Should the French president have wooed Beijing, said German managers, France could be the main beneficiary of the divide-and-rule attempt by Chinese leaders.
  德国企业管理者们表示，如果这位法国总统向中国示好，那么法国可能成为中国领导人（对法德）“分而治之”策略的主要受益者。
• 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。