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“I guarantee(保证),” says the salesman in the pet shop, “that this purple(紫色的) parrot(鹦鹉) will repeat every word it hears.” A customer buys the bird, but he finds that the parrot won't speak a single word. Nevertheless(然而), what the salesman says is true.

How could this be?

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解析:

The parrot is deaf().


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