（古文) Is ‘attract’ for 援 in 人所援也 acceptable?
媛=belle
人所援也= whom people pull close
非漢所望也 means : not what Han is hoping for
A faithful translation to the original text would be :

媛: 美女也, 人所援也
The word &quot;belle&quot; means: &quot;a beautiful woman, whom people (men) want to pull close to himself.&quot;

&quot;媛&quot; is the topic, &quot;美女也, 人所援也&quot; is the comment. It is a common [topic + comment/opinion] sentence structure.
The word &quot;所&quot; in &quot;美女也, 人所援也&quot; functions as a pronoun (e.g. what; whom) for the object. Which the subject (人) (n) is acting on.
In this case, it is  &quot;pull close&quot;(援)(v)

The phrase 非漢所望也 also has an active voice, therefore : &quot;not what Han is hoping for&quot; is a pretty accurate translation to the original text.