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词汇 parroting
释义 parroting
present participle ofparrot
parrot
verb[ T ]
 disapprovinguk /ˈpær.ət/ us /ˈper.ət/
to repeat exactly what someone else says, without understanding it or thinking about its meaning: 鹦鹉学舌般地复述,机械地复述
She doesn't have an original thought in her head - she just parrots anything that Sara says.她脑子里没有什么自己的见解,她只会机械地重复萨拉所说的每句话。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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Examples of parroting


parroting

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


Although it is not possible to know how deep children's processing was in our experiment, their errors show that they were not parroting the input.
A parroting effect has been noted in speech interfaces in which the user will tend to respond using the same words that occur in the prompt.
It is not a question of us parroting other peoples' concerns.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Only one sits on the sidelines, parroting "constructive engagement", but failing to come up with clear parameters and policies for the future.
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She has nothing to say on these issues, except to go round the world parroting about the need to protect national sovereignty.
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All they got was the usual complacent, superficial parroting of the empty nonsense about commitments and guarantees.
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Labour would earn more respect if it spelt out in detail what it expected the electorate to accept: parroting slogans is not enough.
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They are merely parroting the cries for yet another tax burden on people who can ill afford to pay.
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They are prepared to sit in a state of paralysis, parroting the view that the proposition is merely theoretical.
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Does he agree that simply parroting out the ten commandments does not get us anywhere?
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Simply parroting the words "botched privatisation"or"fatally flawed" gets everyone nowhere.
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There has been parroting of various slogans, but no real strategy has been put in place.
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Untrammelled too perhaps by the mindless parroting of the fashionable and politically correct shibboleth, that the hereditary principle is indefensible.
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That is a legitimate debate and the parroting of proportional representation as the only way forward is inappropriate for serious people trying to discuss the matter.
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The verb parroting can be found in the dictionary, and means to repeat by rote.
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