suitor
noun /ˈsuːtə(r)/
/ˈsuːtər/
- (old-fashioned) a man who wants to marry a particular woman
求婚者 - He was an ardent suitor.
他是一个热情的追求者。 - In the play, the heroine has to choose between three suitors.
剧中，女主角要在三个求婚者中作出选择。
- He was an ardent suitor.
- (business
商业 有意收购另一公司的公司 - a merger proposal from an unwanted suitor
不受欢迎的追求者提出的合并建议
- a merger proposal from an unwanted suitor
词源late Middle English (in the sense ‘member of a retinue’): from Anglo-Norman French seutor, from Latin secutor, from sequi ‘follow’.