VERB 寻求,争取(支持、选票等) If you woo people, you try to encourage them to help you, support you, or vote for you, for example by promising them things which they would like.
They wooed customers by offering low interest rates... 他们靠提供低息来招揽客户。
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 man woos a woman, he spends time with her and tries to persuade her to marry him.
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。
That attitude partly explains why the search firm still woos candidates like the current CFO of a South Carolina law firm whose last job lasted a week. 正是出于部分此原因,猎头公司仍然会去挖南卡罗莱纳州某律师事务所现任CFO那样的候选人&这位CFO的上份工作才做了一个星期。
They are just trying to look noble and global by association in a way that wows and woos customers. 它们只是试图以让顾客交口称赞的方式来建立起贵族化和全球性的形象。
Spain woos Chinese tourists 西班牙迎合中国旅客
Professor Woos exemplary knowledge of anatomy and physiology and the art of acupotomy has helped me through a multiple of serious injuries as well as my own work practices. 吴教授杰出的解剖及生理学知识和针刀技术,帮助我解决了许多由工作带给我的多种伤害。
Already isolated from the people, the Arroyo regime desperately woos Washington to convince the US that, despite the public clamor for arroyo's removal from office, she is still their best puppet. 艾若育自绝于人民之外,该政权绝望地向华府恳求来说服美国人民,尽管菲国人民呼吁艾若育应与华府脱钩,但她仍是华府最好的傀儡。
Nevertheless, it is so famous that it woos thousands of tourists worldwide all the year round. 它极富盛名,每年有成千上万的游客趋之若骛,从世界各地涌来。
It woos multinational corporations while shunning domestic, small-and medium-sized businesses. 它对跨国公司大献殷勤,却刻意冷落本地的中小企业。