Woo

(verb.) make amorous advances towards; 'John is courting Mary'.

(verb.) seek someone's favor; 'China is wooing Russia'.

整理:罗威娜

• 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