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

• Other agencies are now wooing informants, too.
  其他机构也对告密者求贤若渴。
• 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。
• 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。
• Eventually he wearied of wooing fame and fortune.
  他终于对追名逐利感到厌倦了。
• 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。
• And are otherwise incapable of wooing said strumpet.
  或者是你根本无能，妓女这么说的。
• 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。
• Supporters of Blu-ray and HD-DVD spent much energy wooing movie studios, retailers and consumers as they fought fiercely to dominate the high-definition DVD market over the past several years.
  在过去几年中，蓝光和HD-DVD格式的支持者为争夺高清DVD市场的主导权展开了激烈的竞争，他们在吸引电影制作公司、零售商以及顾客上都下了很大功夫。
• But is all the wooing paying off?
  可是，这些努力有无成效？