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

• 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。
• It was an old routine of theirs, a mock battle and wooing, using their voices like swords, each shouting a chorus in turn.
  这是他们的一个老惯例，一个模仿的争斗和求爱，用他们象剑一样的声音，每人轮流喊出一个迭句。
• By wooing the neglected peasant base, he ( possibly unwittingly) uncorked long bottled-up tensions.
  通过争取被忽视的农民的支持，他（可能不经意间）释放了长期被抑制的紧张。
• 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。
• It is very competitive, everyone is wooing Chinese companies.
  竞争很激烈，人人都在向中国企业示好。
• The former president, who is intent on wooing back National Front voters, was quick to offer ideas.
  有意从国民阵线夺回选民的这位前总统，很快提供了思路。
• 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。
• And Canada has perhaps gone further than any country in wooing overseas students.
  在吸引留学生方面，加拿大也许已经比任何国家都做得到位。
• 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。
• Then he would wait no longer, but flew away, to commence his wooing at once.
  当他从她得不到半个字的回答的时候，就不再愿意问了。他飞走了，并且立刻开始他的求婚活动。