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

• 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。
• 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。
• I groped in my pocket for the key.
  我在囗袋中搜寻钥匙。
• He groped for the door knob in the dark to open the door and went to bed.
  在黑暗中他摸索着找到了门把手，打开门，就上床睡觉了。
• 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。
• 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。
• Then she blew out the candle and groped her way into bed.
  然后她吹灭了蜡烛摸黑上床。
• The family groped in the darkness, amid thunder and lightning.
  雷电交加，一家四口在黑暗中摸索着。
• I groped my way to a seat in the dark cinema.
  我在黑暗的电影院里摸索着找一个座位。
• Ex: I was groped on the subway one day so I turned around and kicked the very rude man in the shins.
  一天我在地铁里被人摸了，所以我转过身，踢了那个粗鲁男人的小腿。