| 词组 | grope |
| 释义 | grope Grope is used most often with for: • ... it found the connection for which subconsciously it must have been groping —Hamilton Basso, The View from Pompey's Head, 1954 • Groping for sleep, all he found was a welter of thoughts —Hugh MacLennan, Two Solitudes, 1945 • ... his eyes groping painfully for a sight of whoever stood on the landing —Kay Boyle, A Frenchman Must Die, 1946 • We must all grope for richer roles, however we can —Francine Du Plessix Gray, TV. Y. Times Book Rev., 10 Oct. 1976 Much less frequently, grope in this sense is used with after: • It was as though she groped after something which was vanishing —Vita Sackville-West, The Edwardi-ans, 1930 • Even the costumes ... seemed to grope ineptly after some notion of eroticism —Mimi Kramer, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 1987 In other relations, grope may be used with any number of prepositions, among them into, through, to, toward, and towards: • Let me grope into a series of formulations, not intended to be sequential-cumulative —William Stafford, Writing the Australian Crawl, 1978 • But tens of thousands of people groped through it [fog] and crowded the city —Robert D. McFadden, N.Y. Times, 24 Nov. 1979 • Government mediators ... groped closer to a solution to the dispute —Newsweek, 18 Apr. 1955 • Like other state governments, California's is ... often thwarted as it gropes toward a future of awesome complexity —Trevor Armbrister, Saturday Evening Post, 12 Feb. 1966 • ... they grope towards an understanding of their loss —Times Literary Supp., 19 Feb. 1971 |
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