| 释义 |
ˈparroted, ppl. a.
[f. parrot v. + -ed1.]
That is repeated mechanically in the manner of a parrot.
1927M. Sadleir Trollope: a Comm. 295 Wherever he appears as..waverer from their parrotted idealisms, Sir Thomas Underwood is Trollope himself. 1966Listener 30 June 949/1 This romanticism is probably a reaction from thousands of inane, parroted essays. 1969Daily Tel. 5 Sept. 17 Underpaid teachers whose mission it was to hammer into my brain..the parroted conjugations of Latin verbs. |