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

• 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。
• I groped for the phone, still half asleep.
  我摸索着电话，迷迷糊糊的还没完全睡醒。
• He hesitated and groped for the right words.
  他犹豫了一下，思寻着恰当的词语。
• We groped our way along the dark corridor.
  我们在黑暗的走廊上摸索着前进。
• At the fourth second he rolled over on his face and groped blindly for the ropes.
  数到四的时候，他翻了个身，面孔朝下，盲目地摸索那些绳子。
• He held both these arms with one hand, and groped along the wall with the other.
  他用一只手抓住这双手臂，另一只手摸索着墙。
• His mind groped to make the connection.
  他在摸索着建立联系。
• Grandma groped at the fresh paint for a moment.
  老奶奶在还未干的油漆上摸索片刻。
• 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。
• 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。