woo 追求（浪漫上）；拉攏、爭取（商業或政治上）｜字脈

1追求（浪漫上）；拉攏、爭取（商業或政治上）
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.

From Middle English wowen, from Old English wōgian 'to woo, court', of uncertain origin.

源自古英文 wōgian「求愛」，更早的來源不明。

原始詞典資料8 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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

Wooname詞源 2

wooverb詞源 1/wuː/

1
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.
2
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; […]
3
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：

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