英:[grəʊpɪŋ]
美:[groʊpɪŋ]
英:[grəʊpɪŋ]
美:[groʊpɪŋ]
adj.
探索的,暗中摸索的
v.
暗中摸,摸索( grope的现在分词 )
探索,搜寻
复数:gropings
词根:grope
adv.gropingly 摸索着;暗中摸索地
n.grope 摸索;触摸
vi.grope 摸索;探索
vt.grope 摸索
verb
intransitive verb
to feel about blindly or uncertainly in search
grope for the light switch
to look for something blindly or uncertainly
grope for the right words
to feel one's way
groped along the dark passage
transitive verb
feel up
claims that her boss tried to grope her
to find (one's way) by groping
noun
an act of groping And what are these clumsy, embarrassing, fumbling encounters if they are not passes, beery gropes in the dark?—Nick Hornby
made a grope for the light switch
grope forv. 探索
Verb Middle English, from Old English grāpian; akin to Old English grīpan to seize
The first known use of grope was before the 12th century
grotesqueadjective
combining (as in a painting) details not found together in nature
unnaturally odd or ugly
grotesqueadjective
combining (as in a painting) details not found together in nature
unnaturally odd or ugly
grotnoun
grotto
gross1 of 4adjective
very obvious : glaring
a gross error
shameful sense 1
gross injustice
big entry 1 sense 2a, bulkyespecially: excessively fat
consisting of a whole before any deductions
gross earnings
coarse sense 5, vulgar
gross language
informal causing disgust or distaste
gross2 of 4noun
a whole before any deductions
gross3 of 4verb
to earn before deductions
grossed $50,000 before taxes
gross4 of 4noun
12 dozen
a gross of pencils
gross1 of 4adjective
very obvious : glaring
a gross error
shameful sense 1
gross injustice
big entry 1 sense 2a, bulkyespecially: excessively fat
consisting of a whole before any deductions
gross earnings
coarse sense 5, vulgar
gross language
informal causing disgust or distaste
gross2 of 4noun
a whole before any deductions
gross3 of 4verb
to earn before deductions
grossed $50,000 before taxes
gross4 of 4noun
12 dozen
a gross of pencils
gross1 of 4adjective
very obvious : glaring
a gross error
shameful sense 1
gross injustice
big entry 1 sense 2a, bulkyespecially: excessively fat
consisting of a whole before any deductions
gross earnings
coarse sense 5, vulgar
gross language
informal causing disgust or distaste
gross2 of 4noun
a whole before any deductions
gross3 of 4verb
to earn before deductions
grossed $50,000 before taxes
gross4 of 4noun
12 dozen
a gross of pencils
gross1 of 4adjective
very obvious : glaring
a gross error
shameful sense 1
gross injustice
big entry 1 sense 2a, bulkyespecially: excessively fat
consisting of a whole before any deductions
gross earnings
coarse sense 5, vulgar
gross language
informal causing disgust or distaste
gross2 of 4noun
a whole before any deductions
gross3 of 4verb
to earn before deductions
grossed $50,000 before taxes
gross4 of 4noun
12 dozen
a gross of pencils
gross1 of 4adjective
very obvious : glaring
a gross error
shameful sense 1
gross injustice
big entry 1 sense 2a, bulkyespecially: excessively fat
consisting of a whole before any deductions
gross earnings
coarse sense 5, vulgar
gross language
informal causing disgust or distaste
gross2 of 4noun
a whole before any deductions
gross3 of 4verb
to earn before deductions
grossed $50,000 before taxes
gross4 of 4noun
12 dozen
a gross of pencils
grosbeaknoun
any of several finches (as the rose-breasted grosbeak) of Europe or America having large stout cone-shaped bills
gropeverb
to seek by or as if by feeling around uncertainly grope for the right word
groped for the light switch
to feel one's way by groping
grope along a wall
1 Seth threw a second handful, groping in his pockets for more.
2 The thing that had devoured Skiorh's mind and possessed his flesh made the body take a step towards Ged, and the arms came groping out towards him.
3 There would be, of course, a groping toward a new reality.
那当然将会是在黑暗中的对新的现实的摸索。
4 I've been groping in the dark in a number of years.
多年来,我一直在黑暗中摸索。
5 It took her forever to get down the stairs, turned sideways, gloved hands gripping the flimsy railing, booted feet groping for every snowy step.
6 Mrs. Fairfax stayed behind a moment to fasten the trap-door; I, by dint of groping, found the outlet from the attic, and proceeded to descend the narrow garret staircase.
7 They're just groping desperately for yet another lame excuse to eat meat.
他们只是不顾一切地为吃肉搜寻又一个站不住脚的借口。
8 Groping with his hands in the dark along the wall, the blind man finds his way to the door.
那位盲人沿墙用手暗中摸索着,找到了通向门的路。
9 She claims that her boss tried to grope her.
10 Aureliano ended up forgetting about him, absorbed in the composition of his poems, but on one occasion he thought he understood something of what Melquíades was saying in his groping monologues, and he paid attention.
11 My groping hands told me that although disarranged it was unoccupied.
我的手摸索着,它告诉我,屋里很乱,但没有人。
12 Since I was the first particle of Health, we can only learn the way grandma and slowly groping.
由于我是第一次刨花生,所以只能学着奶奶的样子,慢慢地摸索着。
13 It was as if she had erected an invisible wall and I was secretly groping each day to see how high and how wide it was.
14 Up to now, technology has been just groping.
到目前为止,科技仅仅在黑暗中摸索。
15 His chief occupation when awake was finding his food in the groping dark of his storerooms and eating it, which was a sort of tiresome ritual, a solemn munching.
16 The refugees were groping their way through the dark, trying to reach safety.
难民摸黑前进,试图转移到安全的地方。
17 “Americans,” she wrote, “seem to be groping for a vision in which women have as much opportunity as men to develop their talents and reap the rewards of their labor and still remain women.”
18 Police said the suspect approached another person in Hornet Tunnel and groped that person’s buttock.
19 “He turns from the light, groping instead for the darkness which is kinder to him. Already he is beginning to be aware of his difference, baby though he is.”
20 It went on that way for a couple of hours, with Robbie getting sloppy drunk, losing to Dad, and groping me when we danced or sat at the bar between games.