释义 |
parrot-fashion adverb BritishWithout thought or understanding; mechanically: she repeated the phrase parrot-fashion...- Officials repeated parrot-fashion to us that it wasn't possible to predict but we couldn't believe they were saying it.
- I am not anti-American - the easy glib retort by that is repeated parrot-fashion whenever one raises these issues - no, I love America, and I hate to see what this wretched war is doing to its people.
- The tales described how they could be heard ‘murmuring’ to one another, and how, parrot-fashion, they repeated back words spoken to them.
Synonyms mechanically, by rote, mindlessly, without thinking, unthinkingly, automatically |