gropes
v.
暗中摸，摸索( grope的第三人称单数 );
探索，搜寻;
例句:
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He gropes again in his pocket and finds his girlfriend’s eyeliner.
他在此摸索他的口袋并且发现了他女朋友的眼线笔。
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Hawthorne asks questions but rarely answers them: he gropes, with no confidence in the outcome.
霍桑恩也提出问题,可是很少解答; 他在暗中摸索, 对结果毫无信心.
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In Hudson River Bracketed it is as if she gropes for a non - existent norm.
在《搭了架子的哈德逊河》里,她好象在搜索一个并不存在的标准.