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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He wooed four girls before finally marrying one.
  他在结婚之前曾向四个姑娘求过婚。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• , wooed the ladies with his gravelly voice.
  他那沙哑的嗓音，对女性有强烈的吸引力。
• Who make their names by experimenting in Britain and, when successful, are wooed by Paris. They visited Cathay ( the old name for China) and became friends with Kublai Khan, the great Mongol Emperor.
  这些英国设计师在英国多方尝试，一旦功成名就，便大得巴黎的欢心。他们访问过震旦（中国的古名），并且成为蒙古大帝忽必烈的朋友。