记忆方法
将“parakeet”拆解为“para-”（表示“在旁边”或“超过”）和“keet”（模仿鸟儿叫声）。想象一种鸟儿在旁边高声鸣叫，形状或行为独特，从而帮助记忆这个单词指的是鹦鹉的一种。
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中文词源
parakeet 长尾鹦鹉
可能来自意大利语parrocchetto,小祭司，来自拉丁语parochus,祭司，神父，词源同parochial,parish.-etto,小词后缀。因这种鸟头上的一绺羽毛像祭司戴的帽子而得名。
英语词源
- parakeet
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parakeet: [16] Parakeet is an anglicization of Old French paraquet. Like the roughly contemporary parrot, this seems to have begun life as a diminutive form of the name Pierre ‘Peter’ (several species of bird, such as the magpie and robin, have been given human names).
- parakeet (n.)
- 1620s, from Spanish perquito; earlier English form parroket (1580s) is from Middle French paroquet, from Old French paroquet (14c.), which is said by etymologists of French to be from Italian parrocchetto, literally "little priest," from parroco "parish priest," from Church Latin parochus (see parish), or parrucchetto, diminutive of parrucca "peruke, periwig," in reference to the head plumage.
The Spanish form, meanwhile, is sometimes said to be a diminutive of Perico, familiar form of Pedro "Peter," and the Old French word is likewise perhaps from or influenced by a diminutive of Pierre "Peter." The relations of the Spanish and Italian forms, and the influence of folk etymology on either or both, are uncertain.
权威例句
- 1. They are like the parakeet in the mine — they are a good barometer of what's going on.
- 他们就像矿区的长尾小鹦鹉,就像温度计反映出周围的变化.
- 2. I had a little yellow parakeet when I was young.
- 我年轻的时候养了一只黄色小鹦鹉。
- 3. Streaming video of Sparky the parakeet.
- 活泼的长尾小鹦鹉视频直播.