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单词 parroted
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parrotedadj.

Brit. /ˈparətᵻd/, U.S. /ˈpɛrədəd/
Forms: 1700s parotted, 1700s– parroted, 1800s– parrotted.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: parrot v., -ed suffix1.
Etymology: < parrot v. + -ed suffix1.
That is repeated mechanically or without thought in the manner of a parrot.
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the mind > language > speech > repetition > [adjective] > repeated > from memory or mechanically
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1758 W. Shirley Brief Remarks Orig. & Present State Drama 16 Such has been the well-known Fate of various Performers; who..left him, to patch up his Representations with a Set of parroted Foils.
1770 F. Gentleman Dramatic Censor I. 108 Theatrical performance to most spectators appears a mechanical disposition of limbs, and a parotted mode of speech.
1843 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 20 May 138/1 Hard words, and parrotted sentences, there was no end of them!
1927 M. Sadleir Trollope 295 Wherever he appears as..waverer from their parrotted idealisms, Sir Thomas Underwood is Trollope himself.
1944 L. Mumford Condition of Man iv. 142 A growing faith in the order of nature acted as a counterweight to unverified revelation or parroted authority.
1969 Daily Tel. 5 Sept. 17 Underpaid teachers whose mission it was to hammer into my brain..the parroted conjugations of Latin verbs.
2001 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 25 Sept. 4 I would like those people to please explain their opinion without using ambiguous parroted slogans that they heard somewhere.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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