" Tactless! " she muttered, groping in her robes for a handkerchief.

“缺心眼！”她嘟囔着，长袍里摸索着寻找手帕。

He groped for the door handle in the dark.

他黑暗中摸索着找门把手。

" I dunno..." Neville groped for Hermione's wrist.

“我不知道… … ”纳威摸索着握住赫敏手腕。

I had no reply to this. Obviously we were just groping blindly.

听了他这话，我没法回答。很明显，我们确实是盲目地行动着。

He felt that he was still groping in the dark.

他感到自己仍黑暗中摸索。

She hesitated, seeming to grope for words.

【grope】她犹豫了一下，像是寻找恰当词语。

I had had a man grope me in front of multiple colleagues, and I was tired of wondering if it was something I wore, I was tired of wondering if it was a vibe I was giving off.

有一个很多同事面前对我上下其手，而我已经厌倦去猜想是不是因为我穿服装关系，我也厌倦怀疑是不是因为我有释放出什么讯息。

Another said the billionaire had groped her in a New York club in the 1990s.

另外一名女子表示，这位亿万富翁上世纪90代曾经纽约一个俱乐部抚摸她。

Yet when every obvious channel is blocked we grope towards the small and obscure.

然而，当所有明显线索都断了以后，我们便只好去摸索细小模糊细节了。

So are you okay with this, or do you need to grope her, too?

你看是就这样定了呢，还是也摸摸她再说？

So you have to grope around in the dark to find the switch.

所以你必须黑暗中摸索着寻找电灯开关。

I shouldn't have to see my girlfriend get groped in public by another man.

我为什么要眼睁睁看我女朋友公共场合被别" 上下其手" 啊。

When there is a power failure, people grope about in flickering candlelight, cars hesitate in the streets because there are no traffic lights to guide them, and food spoils in silent refrigerators.

当停电时，们摇曳不定烛光下暗中摸索； 因没有红绿灯指示，汽车道路上迟疑不前；冰箱也停止工作，导致食物变质。

Hermione's screams echoed off the walls upstairs, Ron was half sobbing as he pounded the walls with his fists, and Harry in utter desperation seized Hagrid's pouch from around his neck and groped inside it.

赫敏尖叫声二楼墙壁上回响，快要哭出来罗恩用他拳头强烈打击墙壁，；完全绝望了哈利从他脖子上抓住了海格小袋，开始掏着什么。

" I can't stand this, " muttered the old gentleman. Up he got, groped his way to the piano, laid a kind hand on either of the broad shoulders, and said, as gently as a woman, " I know, my boy, I know."

“我真受不了这个，”老先生喃喃自语。他站起身来，摸索着走向钢琴，慈祥地将手搭劳里宽阔双肩上，用女一般温和语气说，“我都知道了，我孩子，我都知道了。”

By the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a drunkard.

借着过道灯光，我看见我姐姐出现房门口，她脸由于恐惧而雪白如纸，双手摸索着寻求援救，整个身体就象醉汉一样摇摇晃晃。

There was something hard inside the pillowcase. He groped inside it and pulled out a sticky purple-and-orange sweet, which he recognized as a Puking Pastille. Smiling to himself, he rolled over and was instantly asleep.

枕头里有个硬东西，他把手伸进去一摸，掏出来一块黏糊糊、一半紫色一半橘黄色糖，他认出来了，是吐吐糖锭。他暗暗笑了笑，翻了个身，立刻睡着了。

A moment's flash of lightning drags down a deeper gloom on my sight, and my heart gropes for the path to where the music of the night calls me.

一霎电光，我视线上抛下一道更深黑暗，我心摸索着寻找那夜音乐对我呼唤径路。

Because men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland.

因为们北极黑暗中搜寻，一种黄色金属被发现，加上轮船公司和运输公司推波助澜，结果便有成千上万拥向北方。

Ironically, just as Whittaker's five-kingdom classification was beginning to find its way into textbooks, a retiring academic at the University of Illinois was groping his way toward a discovery that would challenge everything.

具有讽刺意味是，正当魏泰克五界分类法开始被写进教材时候，伊利诺伊大学一位脚踏实地学者即将完成一个发现。这项发现将向一切提出挑战。