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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• '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。
• I just know that when you wooed me.
  我只知道你向我求婚时。
• 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。
• They wooed customers by offering low interest rates
  他们靠提供低息来招揽客户。
• Words have wooed yet failed to win her; persuasion has stretched to her its eager arms in vain.
  无数求爱的话，都已说过，但还没有赢得她的心；劝诱向她伸出渴望的臂，也是枉然。
• 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。