Parrot
['pærət]
解釋/意思:
(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'.
錄入:米尔顿--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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.
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同義詞及近義詞：
n. Poll.
珍妮特編輯
解釋/意思:
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.
編輯:桑德拉
娱乐性解釋/意思：
Parrots chattering in your dreams, signifies frivolous employments and idle gossip among your friends. To see them in repose, denotes a peaceful intermission of family broils. For a young woman to dream that she owns a parrot, denotes that her lover will believe her to be quarrelsome. To teach a parrot, you will have trouble in your private affairs. A dead parrot, foretells the loss of social friends.
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娱乐性解釋/意思：
An individual who can never be held responsible for what he says.
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例句/造句/用法:
- You can Poll Parrot enough when you ain't wanted to Poll Parrot, you perwerse jade! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Mr Wegg hinted, to jog his attention: 'You could hardly have been out parrot-shooting, in the British climate, sir? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- He brought me a lovely tropical parrot in faience, of Dresden ware, also a man ploughing, and two mice climbing up a stalk, also in faience. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Luckily, the beadwork parrot could not talk, but its creator could, and did, with as few pauses as possible. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- But don't Poll Parrot me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- There was a parrot, or summat like it, screeching in the window. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I was down at the water-side, looking for parrots brought home by sailors, to buy for stuffing. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- When that was done, he awoke to a clear perception that Poll Parroting was solely chargeable with what had passed. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Will you leave off a Poll Parroting, I ask you? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- No Poll Parroting! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- What are you Poll Parroting at now? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- You could go on Poll Parroting enough with her, when I warn't come in: Poll Parrot a little with her on this pint. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- And don't you know that I won't have no Poll Parroting on the part of my daughter? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- No, nor yet that I won't take no Poll Parroting from no man? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
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