grope
英语[编辑]
词源[编辑]
源自中古英语 gropien，源自古英语 grāpian，与grīpan有关（其派生出英语 gripe），亦对比grip。
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动词[编辑]
grope (第三人称单数简单现在时 gropes, 现在分词 groping, 一般过去时及过去分词 groped)
- (弃用) （用手）摸，拿取
- 摸黑寻找，（指盲人）用手寻找
- a. 1812. Joseph Stevens Buckminster, sermon
- to grope about a little longer among the miseries and sensualities of a worldly life
- Template:RQ:Hardy Woodlanders
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner、Moonfleet, Ch.4:
- Yet there was no time to be lost if I was ever to get out alive, and so I groped with my hands against the side of the grave until I made out the bottom edge of the slab, and then fell to grubbing beneath it with my fingers. But the earth, which the day before had looked light and loamy to the eye, was stiff and hard enough when one came to tackle it with naked hands, and in an hour's time I had done little more than further weary myself and bruise my fingers.
- 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, 章号 III, 出自 Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, 出版于 1915, →OCLC:
- Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
- （请为本引文添加中文翻译）
- a. 1812. Joseph Stevens Buckminster, sermon
- （尤指性方面的）爱抚
- We've been together two weeks, and have just been kissing and groping, but no sex yet.
- 我们在一起两个星期了，就亲了亲嘴，互相爱抚，但是还没有做爱。
- 用手猥亵
- That old man groped that girl on the train!
- 那个老头在火车上猥亵了那个女孩！
- (弃用) 检查，测试
- (我们能否查找并添加Chaucer引用过本词的语句？)
- 1557, Genevan Testament (Acts xxiv)
- Felix gropeth him, thinking to have a bribe.
近义词[编辑]
名词[编辑]
grope (复数 gropes)
- (非正式) 用手猥亵，咸猪手
- The old man tried to get a quick grope of the young lady on the train.
- 那个老头想猥亵那位火车上的少女。