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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• , wooed the ladies with his gravelly voice.
  他那沙哑的嗓音，对女性有强烈的吸引力。