parroting 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.
parroting 近义词
repeat
更多parroting例句
- This requires not just teaching to the test and not just parroting critiques.
- Over there, “journalists,” such as they are, literally survive by parroting the government.
- Some of what they said sounded like a rhetorical, if earnest, parroting of notions they'd heard from teachers.
- They are parroting the old party line that always puts special interests ahead of the national interest.
- Parroting another government line, the article raises the specter of a Russian intervention if postelection unrest flares.
- One of my draft is killed and five wounded and here everyone is parroting about a Merry Christmas.
- That statement was made and I think it was—he was probably parroting somebody else that made the statement previously.
- Later he put it into Altrurian, and I memorized it, and made myself immensely popular by parroting it.
- The mere intonation of words unaccompanied by a strict knowledge of "that dumb, silent language," Pantomime, is only parroting.
- "My translator is working badly," the voice of the elder was parroting.