It had, apparently, been fished out of existence; and the once might Newfoundland fleet now gropes about frantically for crab on the sea floor.

显然，由于捕捞，它已经灭绝了；而曾经很强大的纽芬兰舰队现在在海底四处搜寻疯狂地找蟹。

It had, apparently, been fished out of existence; and the once mighty Newfoundland fleet now gropes about frantically for crab on the seafloor.

显然，过度捕捞已经使这里的鳕鱼不复存在了。而曾经很强大的纽芬兰船队现在在海底疯狂地搜寻螃蟹。

His sluggish mind gropes for it.

他那迟缓的头脑瞥见了它。

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。

He gropes for a lamp, tries to turn it on, knocks it over instead.

男人摸索着想打开台灯，却弄翻了它。

And him who gropes in the dark even as him who dances his days upon the mountains.

我爱那在黑暗中摸索如同白天在山陵中舞蹈的人们。

The initialize() function gropes through the DOM of the applet and its parent HTML document looking for an existing session ID in the form of a cookie, and disabling menus appropriately.

initialize() 函数在 applet 的 DOM 以及包含它的 HTML 文档中搜索前进，寻找用 cookie 形式保存的会话 ID，并禁用适当的菜单。

When those patterns break down - as when a hiker stumbles across an easy chair sitting deep in the woods, as if dropped from the sky - the brain gropes for something, anything that makes sense.

如果那些模式崩解的话—比如一位远足者在深林中偶遇一块安乐椅，比如说从空中坠下—大脑就开始搜索，搜索其内任何有意义的信息。