parrot
英 [ˈpærət] 美 [ˈperət]

n.

鹦鹉；应声虫，学舌者；机械模仿别人的人；

vt.

机械地重复；随声附和；死背；做…的应声虫

变形

复数：parrots过去式：parroted过去分词：parroted现在分词：parroting第三人称单数：parrots

双语释义

n.(名词)

1. [C]鹦鹉 bird with a hooked beak and brightly coloured feathers

英英释义

parrot[ 'pærət ]

• n.
  • usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic sounds
  • a copycat who does not understand the words or acts being imitated
• v.repeat mindlessly

  "The students parroted the teacher's words"

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

1. The boy had a parrot on his right shoulder.
   男孩把一只鹦鹉放在右肩上。
2. He talks like a parrot and just repeats what he heard.
   他只是鹦鹉学舌，拾人牙慧罢了。
3. My little brother is also my parrot, always doing everything I do.
   我的小弟弟也是我的模仿者，我做什么他也做什么。

用作及物动词(vt.)

1. This parrot is an amazing mimic.
   这只鹦鹉很会学舌。
2. It is not a writer's job to play the parrot.
   作家绝不可鹦鹉学舌。
3. Coming home from Europe, America or Japan, they can only parrot things foreign.
   他们从欧美日本回来，只知生吞活剥地谈外国。

权威例句

Phonation in the Orange-winged Amazon parrot, Amazona amazonica
Lilac-Crowned Parrot Diet and Food Resource Availability: Resource Tracking by a Parrot Seed Predator
Molecular Mapping of Brain Areas Involved in Parrot Vocal Communication
SURVIVAL RATES OF A NEOTROPICAL PARROT: IMPLICATIONS FOR LATITUDINAL COMPARISONS OF AVIAN DEMOGRAPHY
The Parrots of Luquillo: Natural History and Conservation of the Puerto Rican Parrot by Noel F. R. Snyder; James W. Wiley; Cameron ...
HATCHING ASYNCHRONY, BROOD REDUCTION, AND FOOD LIMITATION IN A NEOTROPICAL PARROT
Estimating rates of population change for a neotropical parrot with ratio, mark-recapture and matrix methods
Evidence for Conceptual Quantitative Abilities in the African Grey Parrot: Labeling of Cardinal Sets
Historical biogeography and diversification within the Neotropical parrot genus Pionopsitta (Aves: Psittacidae)
Taylor & Francis Online :: Estimating rates of population change for a neotropical parrot with ratio, mark-recapture and matrix meth...