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

• 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。
• So it seems they may have wooed multiple mates, and were then left in charge of a veritable dinosaur day care center, filled with their various girlfriends'eggs.
  所以看起来它们可能追求了很多的“伴侣”，随后它们就负责掌管一个实实在在的恐龙“幼儿园”&这里充满了它们不同“女友”的恐龙蛋。
• 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。
• He wooed four girls before finally marrying one.
  他在结婚之前曾向四个姑娘求过婚。
• 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。
• I just know that when you wooed me.
  我只知道你向我求婚时。
• The movie actor was wooed by several companies to do TV commercials for them.
  那位电影明星被数家公司恳请为他们拍电视的商品广告。
• 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。
• 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。
• '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。