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To try hard to make someone like you, especially romantically — an old-fashioned or literary word for pursuing someone you're interested in. It's also used more broadly today outside of romance: companies "woo" customers and politicians "woo" voters, meaning they try hard to win their support or business.
追求(浪漫上);拉攏、爭取(商業或政治上)
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Wooname詞源 1
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A surname from Chinese.
Wooname詞源 2
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A surname from Korean.
wooverb詞源 1/wuː/
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To endeavor to gain someone's affection or support.
- They're trying to woo the customers back with this new mobile plan.
- Behind this carefully crafted strategy of wooing Trump is a desire from Gulf states to solidify and formalize their positions as the US’ indispensable security and economic partners, and extract as much benefit for themselves as they can.
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Often of a man, to try to persuade (someone) to be in an amorous relationship with.
- Soo leue we syr Launcelot lyenge within that caue in grete payne / and euery day ther came a lady & brouȝt hym his mete & his drynke / & wowed hym to haue layne by hym / and euer the noble knyghte syre Launcelot sayd her nay. "So leave we Sir Launcelot lying within that cave in great pain; and every day there came a lady and brought him his meat and his drink, and wooed him, to have lain by him; and ever the noble knight, Sir Launcelot, said her nay."
- I haue beene wooed, as I intreat thee now, / Euen by the ſterne, and direfull God of warre, / VVhoſe ſinowie necke in battel nere did bow, / VVho conquers where he comes in euery iarre; […]
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To court solicitously; to invite with importunity; to solicit in love.
- Thee Chauntreſs oft the Woods among, / I woo to hear thy eeven Song;
- I woo the wind / That still delays his coming.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。