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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 'Happy employees are productive employees, but employees who can't collaborate effectively with their peers are easily wooed away by competitors.
  快乐的员工才会有较高的生产力，而无法和同事有效合作的员工很容易被竞争者挖走。
• Pop troubadour Wang Leehom wooed his fans with his butter-smooth vocals and wowed them with flashy pyrotechnics.
  流行歌手王力宏用他温柔的嗓音来向他的粉丝传情，灿烂的烟火着实让大家都吃了一惊。
• Journalists no longer need to be wooed.
  记者不再是需要拉拢的群体。
• 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。
• 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。