核心畫面
A coloured bird with a strong curved that can be taught to say human words. What it says can come out exactly right — the sounds copied perfectly — while nothing of the meaning has come with them. That gap between a perfect copy and an empty understanding is what the rest of the word grows out of.
可以想成一隻羽毛鮮豔、嘴喙彎彎的鳥站在架子上，把聽過的人話一字不差地學回來：音準得驚人，可是牠並不知道自己在講什麼。…更多收起
可以想成一隻羽毛鮮豔、嘴喙彎彎的鳥站在架子上，把聽過的人話一字不差地學回來：音準得驚人，可是牠並不知道自己在講什麼。這個字往外長出來的部分，多半就是從「複製得很像、卻不帶理解」這個畫面來的——重點不在鳥，而在那個空掉的中間層。原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Parrotname
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A surname transferred from the given name.
parrotnoun/ˈpæɹət/
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A kind of bird, many species of which are colorful and able to mimic human speech, of the order Psittaciformes or (narrowly) of the family Psittacidae.
- I bought a wonderful parrot at the pet store.
- Mrs. Merdle was at home, and was in her nest of crimson and gold, with the parrot on a neighbouring stem watching her with his head on one side, as if he took her for another splendid parrot of a larger species.
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A parroter; a person who repeats the words or ideas of others.
- What kind of a parrot are you? He just said that.
- In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men’s thinking.
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archaicA puffin.
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obsoletegeographygeologynatural-scienceschannel coal.
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slangaeronauticsaerospaceaviationA transponder.
parrotverb/ˈpæɹət/
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To repeat (exactly what has just been said) without necessarily showing understanding, in the manner of a parrot.
- The interviewee merely parroted the views of her tabloid.
- So when political leaders parrot the tobacco company line, say cigarettes are not necessarily addictive, and oppose our efforts to keep tobacco away from our children, they continue to cater to powerful interests, but they're not standing up for parents and children.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。