Woo
[wuː] or [wu]
解释:
(verb.) make amorous advances towards; 'John is courting Mary'.
(verb.) seek someone's favor; 'China is wooing Russia'.
整理:罗威娜--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To solicit in love; to court.
(v. t.) To court solicitously; to invite with importunity.
(v. i.) To court; to make love.
欧文录入
同义词及近义词：
v. a. Court, solicit in love, make love to, pay one's addresses to.
v. n. Court, make love.
整理:米歇尔
解释:
v.t. to ask in order to marriage: to court: to solicit eagerly to seek.—v.i. to court or make love: to ask.—ns. Woo′er; Woo′ing.
校对:谢尔曼
例句:
- Were the goddess of beauty to woo me, I could not meet her advances. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- If you would have had Lord Triton down here to woo her with his philanthropy, he might have carried her off before the year was over. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- For with roses do I woo thee, Sue thee! 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- I forbade you to think of Helena as a bride, but, provided you brought Roylands here, I gave you permission to woo her. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- But this sleep--I _should_ like to woo it to your pillow, to win for you its favour. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Half his destiny would then be determined, but the other half might not be so very smoothly wooed. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- It is meeter for thy humour to be wooed with bow and bill, than in set terms, and in courtly language. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- But as he gradually recovered, Mrs Boffin gradually introduced herself; and smiling peace was gradually wooed back to Mrs Betty Higden's home. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- She is, I suspect, akin to that Solitude which I once wooed, and from which I now seek a divorce. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Helena's a woman, therefore may be wooed. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- I find on this pavement that wanderer-wooing summer night of which I mused; I see its moon over me; I feel its dew in the air. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- His second wooing, he resolved, should be as calm and simple as possible. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- Remember you are to that extent responsible for my wooing with Eunice. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Under the utilitarian motive of Rosedale's wooing she had felt, clearly enough, the heat of personal inclination. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- This had been a well-known signal in old times when Wildeve had used to come secretly wooing to Mistover. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Mr. Barkis's wooing, as I remember it, was altogether of a peculiar kind. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Crispin, I am going a-wooing! 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
整理:莫尼卡