parrot 的 2 个定义
- any of numerous hook-billed, often brilliantly colored birds of the order Psittaciformes, as the cockatoo, lory, macaw, or parakeet, having the ability to mimic speech and often kept as pets.
- a person who, without thought or understanding, merely repeats the words or imitates the actions of another.
- to repeat or imitate without thought or understanding.
- to teach to repeat or imitate in such a fashion.
parrot 近义词
repeat
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- Of course, we might find it easier to work with parrots or dogs, but whales, by their sheer size, their commanding voices, and surprising grace elicit a kind of attention that smaller lifeforms can’t.
- In South America, palm swifts snatch feathers from flying pigeons and parrots — a behavior already known as kleptoptily.
- Pelicans, woodpeckers, and parrots have very different diets that require a beak adapted to the job.
- Look at most of the smartest animals on the planet, like monkeys, elephants, parrots, and hyenas, and you’ll see that they live in complex, rather than simple, social systems.
- So if a parrot is able to tell us the color of different objects, that does not necessarily show that the parrot understands the meanings of those words.
- As he describes why he plans to spend the rest of his days in Kisangani, a pet parrot gnaws on his Rolex.
- Oliver bares his soul as he highlights comments in which he is compared to a parrot and knocked for mocking an unremarkable soda.
- There's the parrot, wings wrapped around himself, shivering.
- Finally the guy gets fed up and throws the parrot in the freezer to punish him.
- Everyone inside the cavernous O2 arena in East London knew exactly what his complaint would be: This was a Dead Parrot.
- He stooped to knot up his long, wet hair, and the parrot fluttered to his shoulder.
- Hephzibah seldom spoke; perhaps, like the parrot in the story, she thought the more.
- All the parrot tribe in Brazil is beautiful: but neither parrots nor parroquets talk well.
- He has been teasing my parrot in its cage, and has plucked so many of its feathers that it now looks like a beaked rat.
- One large gray parrot had learned her name, and would call out, "Good-morning, Susan!"