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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• , wooed the ladies with his gravelly voice.
  他那沙哑的嗓音，对女性有强烈的吸引力。
• Journalists no longer need to be wooed.
  记者不再是需要拉拢的群体。
• 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。
• 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。