A coloured bird with a strong curved that can be taught to say human words. What it says can come out exactly right — the sounds copied perfectly — while nothing of the meaning has come with them. That gap between a perfect copy and an empty understanding is what the rest of the word grows out of.
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原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Parrotname
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A surname transferred from the given name.
parrotnoun/ˈpæɹət/
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A kind of bird, many species of which are colorful and able to mimic human speech, of the order Psittaciformes or (narrowly) of the family Psittacidae.
- I bought a wonderful parrot at the pet store.
- Mrs. Merdle was at home, and was in her nest of crimson and gold, with the parrot on a neighbouring stem watching her with his head on one side, as if he took her for another splendid parrot of a larger species.
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A parroter; a person who repeats the words or ideas of others.
- What kind of a parrot are you? He just said that.
- In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men’s thinking.
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archaicA puffin.
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obsoletegeographygeologynatural-scienceschannel coal.
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slangaeronauticsaerospaceaviationA transponder.
parrotverb/ˈpæɹət/
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To repeat (exactly what has just been said) without necessarily showing understanding, in the manner of a parrot.
- The interviewee merely parroted the views of her tabloid.
- So when political leaders parrot the tobacco company line, say cigarettes are not necessarily addictive, and oppose our efforts to keep tobacco away from our children, they continue to cater to powerful interests, but they're not standing up for parents and children.
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