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

• 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。
• 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。
• He wooed four girls before finally marrying one.
  他在结婚之前曾向四个姑娘求过婚。
• 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。
• We've also been intrigued and wooed by his music with Modern West, especially since he's been able to use it as a way to connect more closely to his fans.
  现代西部乐队的音乐使我们感到狂热及迷恋。特别值得一说的就是他通过这样的方式和他的粉丝进行更亲密的接触。
• 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。
• 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。
• In the evening, Zhang Ziyi also wooed fans at the Haeundae beach, by appearing with another South Korean director, Lee Chang-dong. Fans swarmed to the bottom of the stage, in an attempt to capture the Chinese star on their smartphones and cameras.
  晚上，章子怡和另一位韩国导演leechang-dong一同亮相，同样吸引了云台海滩的粉丝，他们拥至舞台底部，试图用手中的智能手机和照相机拍摄这名中国演员。