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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Now I am groping towards an inner, spiritual consciousness that will be able to go out from me.
  如今，我正在通往内在精神意识的道路上摸索前行，希望有一天能够将它们从我的内心唤醒。
• 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。
• 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。
• We are groping after the mystery of the universe.
  我们在探索宇宙的奥秘。
• Why are you groping about in the dark? Here's the light!
  你为啥在黑暗中摸着走？这不是灯吗！
• Groping in the dark, he suddenly touched something.
  他在暗中摸索着，忽然触动了什么东西。
• 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。