Word forms: 3rd person singular present tense woos, present participle wooing, past tense, past participle wooed
1VERB 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. 寻求,争取(支持、选票等)
They wooed customers by offering low interest rates. [VERB noun]
他们靠提供低息来招揽客户。
They are trying to woo back electoral support. [VERB noun with adv.]
他们正试图赢回选民的支持。
SYN seek, cultivate, try to attract, curry favour with
wooing
This election has been marked so far by the candidates' wooing of each other's traditional political bases.
到目前为止,这次选举的特色是候选人争取获得彼此传统政治大本营的支持。
2VERB 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. 追求(女人);向(女人)求爱(或求婚) [old-fashioned]
The penniless author successfully wooed and married Fanny. [VERB noun]