grope

verb

1. 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。
2. （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。
3. 猥亵；摸（某人）
   to touch sb sexually, especially when they do not want you to

noun

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

1. VERB 摸索；探寻
   If you grope for something 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。
2. VERB 摸索着走
   If you grope your way to 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。
3. VERB 探索；努力寻求
   If you grope for something, 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。
4. VERB 抚摸；猥亵
   If one person gropes another, 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. Grope is 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。

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。
3. 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。
4. 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。
5. 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。
6. You will be trying to grope her hair and brush against her body all the time.
   你会一直要去摸她的头发、蹭她的身体。
7. The Japanese spies grope about for commercial information;
   日本间谍到处搜集商业情报。
8. I grope for the light switch in the dark room.
   我在黑洞洞的屋里摸索著寻找电灯开关。
9. 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。
10. 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。
11. Darkness gives me dark eyes with which I grope for brightness.
    黑暗给了我一双黑暗的眼睛，我要用它去寻找光明。
12. 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。
13. Why grope after the meaning of a word?
    何必去苦想一个单词的意思？
14. They only had time for a kiss and a quick grope before saying good night.
    他们在道晚安前只有接吻和快速搂抱一下的时间。
15. 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。
16. Based on this point of view, this paper makes a useful grope after the combination of these two techniques.
    基于以上的认识，本文在这两种技术的结合上作了有益的尝试。
17. 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。
18. 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。
19. It's too late. I must try to grope about for an excuse to leave.
    太晚了，我必须设法找借口离开。
20. For the network multi-media the teaching grope fored some experiences.
    为网络多媒体教学摸索了一些经验。
21. She hesitated, seeming to grope for words.
    她犹豫了一下，似乎在寻找合适的字眼。
22. Grope for New Ways to Improve the Quality of Student Party Members With "3D Project" as a Handle
    以党员3D工程为抓手探索学生党员素质发展新途径
23. 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。
24. Provide specialist technical support to the Aluminum Grope, customers and contract manufacturers.
    对集团的项目提供专业技术支持，对用户和制造厂商提供专业技术支持。
25. 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。
26. We have to grope for ways to do thing.
    我们只能边摸索边干。
27. We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night;
    我们摸索墙壁，好像瞎子一样；我们摸索，如同没有眼睛的人一般；我们在中午跌倒，有如在黄昏跌倒一样；
28. With strong sense of responsibility, good team spirit, have the courage to grope.
    高度的责任心，良好的团队精神，勇于探索的精神。

noun

1. the act of groping

verb

1. fondle for sexual pleasure
   1. He made some sexual advances at the woman in his office and groped her repeatedly

2. feel about uncertainly or blindly
   1. She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom

   Synonym:    fumble

3. search blindly or uncertainly
   1. His mind groped to make the connection