Fakat Pepperberg papağan ile çalışmanın daha şimdiden hayvanlara bakmanın şeklini değiştirdiğini söylüyor.
- But Pepperberg says working with the parrot has already changed the way of looking at animals.
Jack, evde bir kedi ve bir papağan bakıyor.
- Jack keeps a cat and a parrot at home.
Kitaplardan öğrendikleri şeyleri papağan gibi tekrarlayan insanlardan nefret ederim.
- I hate people who just parrot things they've learned from books.
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.
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.
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.
He failed the tests because he could only recite the lessons parrot-fashion.