wooing

英 [ˈwuːɪŋ]

美 [ˈwuːɪŋ]

v.  争取…的支持; 寻求…的赞同; 追求(异性); 求爱
woo的现在分词

现在分词：wooing　

BNC.39157 / COCA.33079

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。

英英释义

noun

• a man's courting of a woman
  1. its was a brief and intense courtship
  Synonym:courtshipcourtingsuit

双语例句

• She now assiduously set about wooing the chauvinist editors of Fleet Street.
  这时候，她千方百计地争取舰队街那些盲目爱国的编辑们。
• If you were a guy, what's your opinion about "woman wooing a man"?
  如果你是男生，你怎样看待“女追男”？
• Both Clinton and Obama are wooing several hundred of the so-called super-delegates party officials and officeholders who remain uncommitted and have the power to support either candidate.
  克林顿和奥巴马都在寻求几百位所谓的超级代表的支持，他们是党内官员和民选官员，都不必承诺支持特定候选人，有权在代表大会上投任何一方的票。
• Within every love story hides the wooing of the gods and goddesses. This is one area of life where the practical meets the mythical.
  每个爱情故事的背后都隐藏着神和女神对浪漫感情的追求。这是生活中现实和神话结合之处。
• There were the wooing nights of tropical lands and the cool discretion of flowering plains between two stalwart hills.
  在两座壮健的山岗之间，有热土般的求欢之夜，和有如开着花朵的平原般的冷静判断。
• Open-source outfits have begun wooing traditional textbook industry talent over to their cause.
  开源供应商已经开始雇佣传统教材行业的精英。
• The idea of Tories wooing visible minority votes would have seemed unlikely before they took office a year ago.
  在一年前上台前，保守党去争取少数族裔选票的想法，似乎是不可能的。
• You had no business wooing her away from her husband.
  你不应该诱使她离开她丈夫。
• Little wonder that fashion brands, hyper-aware of the paparazzi attention devoted to the new stars and their influence, have been wooing them not only to wear their clothes, but help make them.
  一点也不奇怪的是，各大时装品牌非常透彻地意识到了狗仔队对于新明星及其影响力的关注，他们不仅恳求这些新星穿着自己品牌的服装，而且帮助明星们制作服装。
• But is all the wooing paying off?
  可是，这些努力有无成效？