grope

英 [ɡrəʊp]

美 [ɡroʊp]

v.  摸索; 搜索; 搜寻; 探寻; (用手)摸索着往前走; 猥亵; 摸(某人)
n.  猥亵; 摸

过去式：groped　现在分词：groping　过去分词：groped　第三人称单数：gropes　复数：gropes　

CET6考研TOEFLIELTSGRETEM8

Collins.1 / BNC.12071 / COCA.10123

牛津词典

verb

• 摸索；搜索；搜寻；探寻
  to try and find sth that you cannot see, by feeling with your hands
  1. He groped around in the dark for his other sock.
     他在黑暗中到处瞎摸找另一只袜子。
  2. ‘It's so…, so…’ I was groping for the right word to describe it.
     “它是那么…，那么…”我想找一个恰当的字眼来描述它。
• （用手）摸索着往前走
  to try and reach a place by feeling with your hands because you cannot see clearly
  1. He groped his way up the staircase in the dark.
     他摸黑走上楼梯。
  2. She groped through the darkness towards the doors.
     她摸黑朝门口走去。
• 猥亵；摸（某人）
  to touch sb sexually, especially when they do not want you to

noun

• 猥亵；摸
  an act of groping sb (= touching them sexually)

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。

英英释义

noun

• the act of groping

verb

• fondle for sexual pleasure
  1. He made some sexual advances at the woman in his office and groped her repeatedly
• feel about uncertainly or blindly
  1. She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom
  Synonym:fumble
• search blindly or uncertainly
  1. His mind groped to make the connection

双语例句

• A short-sighted acquaintance once took a day off in order to grope around his flat looking for his glasses.
  一位近视的熟人曾经停了一天的工作，以便在他住的公寓里找眼镜。
• 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。
• But in darkly, they then my emollient walking stick, is to give me the courage, prop up the dot to my confidence, encourage me to grope for the road of the precession in darkly.
  可是在黑暗中，他们则是我有力的拐杖，是给我勇气，给我信心的支撑点，激励着我在黑暗中摸索前进的道路。
• Economists started to grope around with increasing desperation for explanations of the recession.
  经济学家们开始更加拼命地四处寻找经济衰退的种种解释。
• Without light, they grope in the dark and stagger like drunkards.
  在无光的黑暗中摸索，踉跄犹如醉汉。
• On this view and in this tone, the only way you can go wrong is to grope around for some theoretical justification for what you're doing.
  在这个观点和语气里，你唯一能犯错的方式是，为你所做的事情，寻找某些理论辩护。
• I went about with her but have never had a grope.
  我和她来往已久，但未发生过性关系。
• Your eye expression is his compass and your soul is the storehouse where he wants to grope.
  你的眼神就是他的指南针，然而你的心灵就是他要探索的宝藏。
• At midday you will grope about like a blind man in the dark.
  你必在午间摸索，好像瞎子在暗中摸索一样。
• The Japanese spies grope about for commercial information;
  日本间谍到处搜集商业情报。