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。
• I just know that when you wooed me.
  我只知道你向我求婚时。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• They wooed customers by offering low interest rates
  他们靠提供低息来招揽客户。
• 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。
• Journalists no longer need to be wooed.
  记者不再是需要拉拢的群体。
• 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。
• 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。