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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 124 Crime and Punishment And again, enraged, he tugged with all his might a dozen times at the bell.
-- After sipping a dozen spoonfuls of tea, he suddenly released his head, pushed the spoon away capriciously, and sank back on the pillow.
-- And there are a dozen witnesses to swear to that!'
-- I maintain that if the discoveries of Ke-pler and Newton could not have been made known except by sacrificing the lives of one, a dozen, a hundred, or more men, Newton would have had the right, would indeed have been in duty bound 芒聙娄 to eliminate the dozen or the hun-dred men for the sake of making his discoveries known to the whole of humanity.
-- presented by Tchebarov, the new paint, thirty de-grees Reaumur and a stifling atmosphere, a crowd of people, the talk about the murder of a person where he had been just before, and all that on an empty stomach he might well have a fainting fit!And that, that is what they found it all on!Damn them!I understand how annoying it is, but in your place, Rodya, I would laugh at them, or better still, spit in their ugly faces, and spit a dozen times in all directions.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I redden, tumble over half a dozen words,and stop.
-- Before this boy, who wasreputed to be a great scholar, and was very good-looking, and atleast half a dozen years my senior, I was carried as before amagistrate.
-- I have notbeen in town half a dozen hours, and those I have been dozing andgrumbling away at the play.'
-- After delivering this speech allin a breath, and with extraordinary animation and pleasure, Mr.Peggotty put one of his large hands rapturously on each side of hisniece's face, and kissing it a dozen times, laid it with a gentle prideand love upon his broad chest, and patted it as if his hand hadbeen a lady's.
-- I must havewritten half a dozen answers at least.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Emma encouraged her talkativeness amused by such a picture of another set of beings, and enjoying the youthful simplicity which could speak with so much exultation of Mrs. Martin's having 'two parlours, two very good parlours, indeed; one of them quite as large as Mrs. Goddard's drawing-room; and of her hav-ing an upper maid who had lived five-and-twenty years with her; and of their having eight cows, two of them Alderneys, and one a little Welch cow, a very pretty little Welch cow in-deed; and of Mrs. Martin's saying as she was so fond of it, it should be called her cow; and of their having a very hand-some summer-house in their garden, where some day next year they were all to drink tea: a very handsome summer-house, large enough to hold a dozen people.'
-- So I begged he would not for really as to ours being gone, I could not absolutely say that we had a great many left it was but half a dozen indeed; but they should be all kept for Jane; and I could not at all bear that he should be sending us more, so liberal as he had been already; and Jane said the same.
-- How the trampers might have behaved, had the young ladies been more courageous, must be doubtful; but such an invitation for attack could not be resisted; and Harri-et was soon assailed by half a dozen children, headed by a stout woman and a great boy, all clamorous, and imper-tinent in look, though not absolutely in word. More and more frightened, she immediately promised them money, and taking out her purse, gave them a shilling, and begged them not to want more, or to use her ill. She was then able to walk, though but slowly, and was moving away but her terror and her purse were too tempting, and she was fol-lowed, or rather surrounded, by the whole gang, demanding more.
-- Half a dozen natural children, perhaps and poor Frank cut off! This, though very undesirable, would be no mat-ter of agony to her.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Between each utterance the little shape advanced about half a dozen yards.
-- Apparently he had some time ago reached that entrance to middle age at which a man's aspect naturally ceases to alter for the term of a dozen years or so; and, artificially, a woman's does likewise.
-- Bathsheba felt the unpleasant symptoms after two or three dozen turns.
-- "I know you do not I know it perfectly," said Troy, with much hearty conviction on the exterior of his face: and altering the expression to moodiness; "when a dozen men are ready to speak tenderly to you, and give the admiration you deserve without adding the warning you need, it stands to reason that my poor rough-and-ready mixture of praise and blame cannot convey much pleasure.
-- She had dressed the hive with herbs and honey, fetched a ladder, brush, and crook, made herself impregnable with armour of leather gloves, straw hat, and large gauze veil once green but now faded to snuff colour and ascended a dozen rungs of the ladder.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "So you have two or three dozen daughters, have you?"
-- There are a dozen of them."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- About half a dozen men came forward; and, one being selected by the magistrate, he deposed that he had been out fishing the night before with his son and brother-in-law, Daniel Nugent, when, about ten o'clock, they observed a strong northerly blast rising, and they accordingly put in for port.
-- This morning, as I sat watching the wan coun-tenance of my friend his eyes half closed and his limbs hanging listlessly I was roused by half a dozen of the sail-ors, who demanded admission into the cabin.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had told Gerald over and over that Emmie Slattery's baby might have been fathered by any one of a dozen men aseasily as himself an idea in which Gerald concurred but that had not altered his case so far as Ellen was concerned.
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