parroted

/par-uht/US // ˈpær ət //UK // (ˈpærət) //

鹦鹉学舌,被转述的,鹦鹉螺,被引用的

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : 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.

v.有主动词 verb

1
- : to repeat or imitate without thought or understanding.
- : to teach to repeat or imitate in such a fashion.

verbrepeat

Synonyms

First, all three essentially parroted each other by first offering up some scary comments on Ebola.
Liebman calls it a “lie” that was frequently “parroted” by legislators on the floor of the state House and Senate.
In recent years, this idea has been parroted so often that it's become known as the “Washington consensus.”
It does not follow that opinions must be merely parroted because they are never heard controverted.
"Prosecution agrees to accept the present court," Goodham parroted.
And in the meantime his paid mouthpieces parroted everywhere the words in which they had been drilled.
Here is an old one whose sentiments have been often parroted by unthinking humans of modern times.
Obligingly she parroted over to Fibsy the lingo of the message.