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

• He, Ron, and Hermione retreated down the side street, groping their way along the wall, trying not to make a sound.
  他和罗恩、赫敏在小街上一步一步后退，顺着墙壁摸索，尽量不发出一点声音。
• Fatima: Okay, I understand that, but that doesn't excuse the groping.
  好吧，我理解你喝酒的原因，但是那不是“触摸”的借口。
• Teenage couples were busy groping each other in the back of the cinema.
  一对对少年恋人在电影院后座忙着互相抚摸。
• 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。
• All that groping leads to a pace of change that is painfully slow.
  种种摸索导致变化的步伐慢得令人痛苦。
• In China, some auto companies and research departments are groping for the electric vehicles.
  在我国，许多汽车公司和科研院所也在努力探索新型绿色能源电动汽车。
• Nevertheless, that does not stop some analysts groping even further back in history for better lessons.
  不过，这没有阻碍一些分析师回到更久远的历史中，寻找更好的经验。
• We are groping after the mystery of the universe.
  我们在探索宇宙的奥秘。
• 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。
• In your groping sight, each second is a bright-coloured.
  在你探索的目光中，每一秒都是一副斑斓的图画。