groped

英 [ɡrəʊpt]

美 [ɡroʊpt]

v.  摸索; 搜索; 搜寻; 探寻; (用手)摸索着往前走; 猥亵; 摸(某人)
grope的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 摸索；探寻
  If yougrope forsomething that you cannot see, you try to find it by moving your hands around in order to feel it.
  1. With his left hand he groped for the knob, turned it, and pulled the door open...
     他左手摸索着门把手，转动一下，然后推开门。
  2. Bunbury groped in his breast pocket for his wallet.
     邦伯里手伸进前胸口袋里摸索钱包。
• VERB 摸索着走
  If yougropeyourwayto a place, you move there, holding your hands in front of you and feeling the way because you cannot see anything.
  1. I didn't turn on the light, but groped my way across the room.
     我没有开灯，而是一路摸黑走过房间。
• VERB 探索；努力寻求
  If yougrope forsomething, for example the solution to a problem, you try to think of it, when you have no real idea what it could be.
  1. He groped for solutions to the problems facing the country...
     他在探求国家所面临问题的解决办法。
  2. She groped for a simple word to express a simple idea.
     她想找个简单的词来表达简单的想法。
• VERB 抚摸；猥亵
  If one persongropesanother, they touch or take hold of them in a rough, sexual way.
  1. He would try to grope her breasts and put his hand up her skirt.
     他会试图摸她的胸部，还把手从她的裙子上向上移。
  2. Gropeis also a noun.
     
  3. She even boasted of having a grope in a cupboard with a 13-year-old.
     她甚至吹嘘曾和一个13岁的男孩在衣橱里有过肌肤之亲。

双语例句

• His mind groped to make the connection.
  他在摸索着建立联系。
• Cao, still calm and collected, groped around the stones to see if he had dropped anything.
  曹先生还镇定，在石块上摸了摸有没有落下来的东西。
• I groped for his name all through our conversation.
  谈话过程中我竭力苦想着他的名字。
• Sir Oliver groped his way to a joint-stool, and sat down upon it, sick and white.
  奥利佛爵士摸索着走到一张折凳旁边，坐了下来，脸色又憔悴又惨白。
• He groped for solutions to the problems facing the country
  他在探求国家所面临问题的解决办法。
• Bunbury groped in his breast pocket for his wallet.
  邦伯里手伸进前胸口袋里摸索钱包。
• With difficulty he released the mattress from the metal frame, and groped beneath it
  他费了很大力气才把床垫从金属架上移开，然后在下面摸索。
• The family groped in the darkness, amid thunder and lightning.
  雷电交加，一家四口在黑暗中摸索着。
• Her mother groped for the back of the chair, her eyes blind with tears.
  她妈妈泪眼蒙眬地伸手去摸椅背。
• He groped for the door handle in the dark.
  他在暗中摸索着找门把手。