parrot
parrot 英 [ˈpærət] 美 [ˈperət]
n. 鹦鹉；
进行时:parroting 过去式:parroted 过去分词:parroted 第三人称单数:parrots 名词复数:parrots
- A parrot is a brightly colored tropical bird with a distinctly loud voice. If you see someone calling a colorful bird "Polly" and asking it if it wants a cracker, that's a parrot.
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- n. 鹦鹉；
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1. This parrot should have a name.
这只鹦鹉应该有个名字。
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2. I like your parrot!
我喜欢你的鹦鹉！
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3. Could you take care of my parrot for me when I’m out .
我不在的时候，你能否替我照看一下我的鹦鹉？
- parrot (n.) 1520s, of uncertain origin, perhaps from dialectal Middle French perrot, from a variant of Pierre "Peter;" or perhaps a dialectal form of perroquet (see parakeet). Replaced earlier popinjay. The German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt in South America in 1800 encountered a very old parrot that was the sole speaker of a dead Indian language, the original tribe having gone extinct.
- parrot (v.) "repeat without understanding," 1590s, from parrot (n.). Related: Parroted; parroting.
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