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

• 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。
• 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。
• , wooed the ladies with his gravelly voice.
  他那沙哑的嗓音，对女性有强烈的吸引力。
• 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。
• 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。
• They wooed customers by offering low interest rates
  他们靠提供低息来招揽客户。
• 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。
• He wooed four girls before finally marrying one.
  他在结婚之前曾向四个姑娘求过婚。
• For one thing, extra dough recruiters call it an "open-market premium" often goes to job candidates wooed from outside.
  首先，被企业招聘人员称为“开放市场溢价”的额外薪资通常会支付给从企业外部招聘来的求职者。
• 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。