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

• But is all the wooing paying off?
  可是，这些努力有无成效？
• His cries were unheeded; Shaw's neglected one-act comedy,` A Village Wooing '; her ignored advice.
  他的哭泣并未被注意到；萧伯纳忽视了独幕喜剧，'乡村的追求'；她的被忽视的忠告。
• 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。
• But with a positive attitude and a little preparation, you'll soon be wooing the girl or girls of your dreams.
  但是有积极的态度且事先有准备，你很快就会向那个女孩或是你的梦中情人求爱。
• Euronext has also been wooing such firms.
  泛欧交易所（euronext）也在向此类公司邀宠。
• 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。
• 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。
• You had no right wooing him away from the company.
  你没有权力劝他离开公司。
• 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。
• 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。