gropes

英 [ɡrəʊps]

美 [ɡroʊps]

v.  摸索; 搜索; 搜寻; 探寻; (用手)摸索着往前走; 猥亵; 摸(某人)
grope的第三人称单数

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

• In this paper, basing on the sticking points and the practical requests of location decision for financial facilities, the author discusses some related problems about location decision for financial facilities and gropes for an integrated method to design a SDSS for location selection.
  本文从选址决策涉及的关键问题和实际需要出发，系统地探讨金融网点选址的一般过程和应用的一般方法及其建立金融网点选址空间决策支持系统的思路和方法。
• Hawthorne asks questions but rarely answers them: he gropes, with no confidence in the outcome.
  霍桑恩也提出问题，可是很少解答；他在暗中摸索，对结果毫无信心。
• Then it gropes after economics foundation of setting up the independent director system from the standpoint of the pay design of the independent director system in our country.
  从我国独立董事制度薪酬设计的角度出发，探索建立独立董事制度的经济学基础；
• In Hudson River Bracketed it is as if she gropes for a non-existent norm.
  在《搭了架子的哈德逊河》里，她好象在搜索一个并不存在的标准。
• The evolution of outlook of social devlopment reflects human endless gropes in course of self-advancement and unceasingly deepening and expanding cognition on social evolvement.
  这些发展观的演变，反映了人类在自身发展道路上无尽的探索以及在发展问题上认识的不断深化与拓展。
• In imagination I can hear Homer singing, as with unsteady, hesitating steps he gropes his way from camp to camp-singing of life, of love, of war, of the splendid achievements of a noble race.
  在想象当中，我能听到荷马的歌唱，他拖着蹒跚而踌躇的脚步在营地间逡巡为生命，爱情，战争和一个高尚民族取得的丰功伟绩而吟唱。
• It studies component technology and the means of developing COM object by Visual C++. It searches clews from existing GIS software and gropes for basic principle of GIS and ways to implement GIS function.
  研究了组件技术和利用VC++开发COM组件的方法，并从现有的GIS软件中寻找线索，探索实现GIS各种基本功能的原理和方法。
• In other words, the practice of socialism can be regarded as that of rationalism. And he rightly adds that "practice gropes in the dark if its path is not illumined by revolutionary theory".
  社会主义的实践就是理性主义的实践。当然又是他的话对：实践若不以革命理论为指南，就会变成盲目的实践。
• Still half asleep, he gropes for the clock, manages to turn off the alarm.
  他半醒半睡地去摸那个钟，设法把响铃关住。
• By manufacturing and applying high-power fast gleithobel plough made in China, this paper gropes a effective way that is good for my country thin coal mechanize cutting and it gets clear economic returns and social benefits.
  通过对国产大功率快速滑行刨煤机的研制与应用，摸索了一条适合我国薄煤层机械化开采的有效途径，并取得了明显的经济效益和社会效益。