单词 | woo |
释义 | woo (wuː ) Word forms: woos , wooing , wooed 1. verb 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. [VERB noun] They are trying to woo back electoral support. [VERB noun with adverb] Synonyms: seek, cultivate, try to attract, curry favour with wooing uncountable noun [oft poss NOUN] ...the candidates' wooing of each other's traditional political bases. [+ of] 2. verb To woo someone is to try to persuade them to marry you. [old-fashioned] The penniless author successfully wooed and married Fanny. [VERB noun] Synonyms: court, chase, pursue, spark [rare] wooing uncountable noun [oft poss NOUN] ...the hero's wooing of his beautiful cousin Roxanne. [+ of] Collocations: woo a buyer But there are less obvious ways to woo a buyer, from stripping the fridge of magnets to composing a love letter to your house. Times, Sunday Times At least one firm's founder wooed a buyer. Times, Sunday Times Prices then rose far too fast, and resale prices on many projects are falling in an effort to woo buyers. Times, Sunday Times And they carried off the performance with a mischievous chutzpah, wooing the audience with just the right mixture of blatant flattery and sincerity. Times, Sunday Times He delivers this nostalgic, patchily scripted chronicle of his showbiz career with a good-humoured twinkle in the eye, wooing his audience assiduously and managing self-promotion with a light touch. Times, Sunday Times In a scintillating display of good horsemanship and woodwork, the players wooed the audience. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Those competing courtesy of a wild card can lift their game and woo the crowd. Times, Sunday Times There are chairs on both sides of the road along with beautiful mini-fountains to woo the crowd during evenings. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They were good humor men who wooed the crowd and watered down the message. Christianity Today The victor wooed the crowd by dancing during his walk-on. Times, Sunday Times But she finally wooed the crowd with dedication to loftier issues. The Star (South Africa) Translations: Chinese: 争取 Japanese: 訴える |
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