groping

英 [ˈɡrəʊpɪŋ]

美 [ˈɡroʊpɪŋ]

v.  摸索; 搜索; 搜寻; 探寻; (用手)摸索着往前走; 猥亵; 摸(某人)
grope的现在分词

现在分词：groping　复数：gropings　

BNC.39396 / COCA.33434

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

adj

• acting with uncertainty or hesitance or lack of confidence
  1. a groping effort to understand

双语例句

• We can see evidence of the compilers groping towards a "system".
  我们可以知道编者是如何摸索编目方法的。
• When through doubt and darkness you are blindly groping.
  在穿越黑暗和怀疑时你在盲目地摸索。
• The deadlocked IWC may be groping towards a similar solution.
  陷入僵局的IWC也在摸索类似的解决方案。
• Groping in the dark, he suddenly touched something.
  他在暗中摸索着，忽然触动了什么东西。
• You are groping like a madman locked in a dark room.
  你就像禁闭在暗室的疯子，在黑暗中摸索。
• The research of this topic has innovative and groping character.
  本课题的研究具有创新和探索的性质。
• I have the feeling that we're groping towards a compromise.
  我感觉我们在寻找一个折中的办法。
• I am not blue at all. I've gone to a different stage of life, and I am groping and learning.
  我不是忧郁，只是生活进入了另一个阶段，我正在摸索和学习。
• And now I find out that you were just groping people at parties.
  现在我发觉你只是在派对上找女人。
• He fought with his fear and pulled himself together, groping in the water and recovering the weapon.
  他和恐惧斗争着，尽力鼓起精神，在水里摸索，找到了枪。