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。
• 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。
• They wooed customers by offering low interest rates
  他们靠提供低息来招揽客户。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Journalists no longer need to be wooed.
  记者不再是需要拉拢的群体。
• He wooed four girls before finally marrying one.
  他在结婚之前曾向四个姑娘求过婚。