英语词汇parrot的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

parrot. Parrots (their name believed to derive somehow from the French proper name Perrot, a diminutive of Pierre) reproduce human sounds with great accuracy and have been known to have “vocabularies” of over 100 words, but they of course speak by imitation, without understanding. Parrots have been called Pollys since the early 17th century, when Ben Jonson first recorded the word. Myna birds (from the Hindi maina) mimic human speech more precisely than par- rots but have smaller vocabularies. See chimpanzee; dolphin.

词汇	parrot
词源	parrot. Parrots (their name believed to derive somehow from the French proper name Perrot, a diminutive of Pierre) reproduce human sounds with great accuracy and have been known to have “vocabularies” of over 100 words, but they of course speak by imitation, without understanding. Parrots have been called Pollys since the early 17th century, when Ben Jonson first recorded the word. Myna birds (from the Hindi maina) mimic human speech more precisely than par- rots but have smaller vocabularies. See chimpanzee; dolphin.
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