dozen是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 一打， 十二个，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Merry Christmas!Out upon merry Christmas!What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in 'em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you?
-- Half a dozen gas-lamps out of the street wouldn't have light-ed the entry too well, so you may suppose that it was pretty dark with Scrooge's dip.
-- All this time, he lay upon his bed, the very core and centre of a blaze of ruddy light, which streamed upon it when the clock pro-claimed the hour; and which, being only light, was more alarming than a dozen ghosts, as he was powerless to make out what it meant, or would be at; and was sometimes appre-hensive that he might be at that very moment an interesting case of spontaneous combustion, without having the con-solation of knowing it.
-- said Mrs Cratchit, kissing her a dozen times, and taking off her shawl and bonnet for her with officious zeal.
-- He passed the door a dozen times, before he had the cour-age to go up and knock.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of years, after rapping out its messages, as the spirits of this very year last past (supernaturally defi-cient in originality) rapped out theirs.
-- There was a special com-panionship in it, an observable inclination on the part of every one to join some other one, which led, especially among the luckier or lighter-hearted, to frolicsome embrac-es, drinking of healths, shaking of hands, and even joining of hands and dancing, a dozen together.
-- The ob-ject in hand being to show that the prisoner went down, with some fellow-plotter untracked, in the Dover mail on that Friday night in November five years ago, and got out of the mail in the night, as a blind, at a place where he did not remain, but from which he travelled back some dozen miles or more, to a garrison and dockyard, and there collected information; a witness was called to identify him as having been at the precise time required, in the coffee-room of an hotel in that garrison-and-dockyard town, waiting for an-other person.
-- In the outermost room were half a dozen exceptional people who had had, for a few years, some vague misgiving in them that things in general were going rather wrong.
-- Prac-tical suggestions being much needed, this suggestion, too, was received with acclamation, and the coach was immedi-ately filled with eight inside and a dozen out, while as many 221people got on the roof of the hearse as could by any exercise of ingenuity stick upon it.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- First came a dozen drummers, who un-derstood pretty well how to handle their instruments; then came halberdiers, and some armed with cross-bows.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And suddenly there floated into his mind the joyful thought: "In two years' time I shall have two Dutch cows; Pava herself will perhaps still be alive, a dozen young daughters of Berkoot and the three others--how lovely!"
-- "You must have let in a dozen at least."
-- One would have thought that out of two dozen delicacies one might find something to one's taste, but Stepan Arkadyevitch asked for something special, and one of the liveried waiters standing by immediately brought what was required.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The porters and fellahs rushed down the quay, and a dozen boats pushed off from the shore to go and meet the steamer.
-- Passepartout, who had been purchasing several dozen mangoes a fruit as large as good-sized apples, of a dark-brown colour outside and a bright red within, and whose white pulp, melting in the mouth, affords gourmands a delicious sensation was waiting for them on deck.
-- A dozen of these sectaries of Tingou lay flat upon their backs, while others, dressed to represent lightning-rods, came and frolicked on their noses, jumping from one to another, and performing the most skilful leapings and somersaults.
-- Passepartout was waiting for his master, armed with half a dozen six-barrelled revolvers.
-- The last car was only occupied by a dozen passengers, whom the conductor politely asked if they would not be so kind as to leave it vacant for a few moments, as two gentlemen had an affair of honour to settle.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He lolled in a brown- corduroy Morris chair, being quietly humorous for the benefit of Martin and half a dozen other fanatical young chemists, and baiting Dr. Norman Brumfit, the instructor in English.
-- Leora and Miss Byers bounced with admiration of the hero when he refused the governorship; Martin worried because the heroine was prettier than Leora; and Angus Duer (who gave an appearance of knowing all about plays without having seen more than half a dozen in his life) admitted that the set depicting "Jack Vanduzen's Camp in the Adirondacks: Sunset, the Next Day" was really very nice.
-- He had searched half a dozen towns by long-distance telephone, and got through to the county clerk just after the license had been granted.
-- In 1899 he was called to the University of Winnemac, as professor of bacteriology in the medical school, and here he drudged on for a dozen years.
-- He reflected (it was an international debate in which he was joined by a few and damned by many) that half a dozen generations nearly free from epidemics would produce a race so low in natural immunity that when a great plague, suddenly springing from almost-zero to a world-smothering cloud, appeared again, it might wipe out the world entire, so that the measures to save lives to which he lent his genius might in the end be the destruction of all human life.
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