Parrot

['pærət]

解释:

(noun.) usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic sounds.

(noun.) a copycat who does not understand the words or acts being imitated.

(verb.) repeat mindlessly; 'The students parroted the teacher's words'.

录入:米尔顿--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) In a general sense, any bird of the order Psittaci.

(n.) Any species of Psittacus, Chrysotis, Pionus, and other genera of the family Psittacidae, as distinguished from the parrakeets, macaws, and lories. They have a short rounded or even tail, and often a naked space on the cheeks. The gray parrot, or jako (P. erithacus) of Africa (see Jako), and the species of Amazon, or green, parrots (Chrysotis) of America, are examples. Many species, as cage birds, readily learn to imitate sounds, and to repeat words and phrases.

(v. t.) To repeat by rote, as a parrot.

(v. i.) To chatter like a parrot.

布兰卡德录入

同义词及近义词：

n. Poll.

珍妮特编辑

解释:

n. one of a family of tropical and subtropical birds with brilliant plumage and a hooked bill remarkable for their faculty of imitating the human voice: a repeater of the words of others.—v.t. and v.i. to repeat by rote.—ns. Par′rot-coal a kind of coal which crepitates in burning; Par′roter; Par′rot-fish a name applied to various fishes from their colours or the shape of their jaws; Par′rotry servile imitation.

编辑:桑德拉