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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Mrs. Joe has been out a dozen times, looking for you, Pip.
-- "Answer him one question, and he'll ask you a dozen directly.
-- Then, we went into the hut, where there was a smell of tobacco and whitewash, and a bright fire, and a lamp, and a stand of muskets, and a drum, and a low wooden bedstead, like an overgrown mangle without the machinery, capable of holding about a dozen soldiers all at once.
-- I thought it had the most dismal trees in it, and the most dismal sparrows, and the most dismal cats, and the most dismal houses (in number half a dozen or so), that I had ever seen.
-- Her countenance immediately assumed a knitted and intent expression as if she had been reading for a week, but before she could have read half a dozen lines, she fixed her eyes upon me, and said, "I hope your mamma is quite well?"
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His excellency, having mounted on the small of my right leg, advanced forwards up to my face, with about a dozen of his retinue; and producing his credentials under the signet royal, which he applied close to my eyes, spoke about ten minutes without any signs of anger, but with a kind of determinate resolution, often pointing forwards, which, as I afterwards found, was towards the capital city, about half a mile distant; whither it was agreed by his maj-esty in council that I must be conveyed.
-- I would gladly have taken a dozen of the natives, but this was a thing the emperor would by no means permit; and, besides a diligent search into my pockets, his majesty engaged my honour 'not to carry away any of his subjects, although with their own consent and desire.'
-- We cast anchor within a league of this creek, and our captain sent a dozen of his men well armed in the long-boat, with vessels for water, if any could be found.
-- I heard a noise behind me like that of a dozen stocking- weavers at work; and turning my head, I found it proceeded from the purring of that animal, who seemed to be three times larger than an ox, as I computed by the view of her head, and one of her paws, while her mistress was feeding and stroking her.
-- Her majesty used to put a bit of meat upon one of my dishes, out of which I carved for myself, and her diver-sion was to see me eat in miniature: for the queen (who had indeed but a weak stomach) took up, at one mouthful, as much as a dozen English farmers could eat at a meal, which to me was for some time a very nauseous sight.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When she was half a dozen years younger, Louisa had been overheard to begin a conversation with her brother one day, by saying 'Tom, I wonder' upon which Mr. Gradgrind, who was the person overhearing, stepped forth into the light and said, 'Louisa, never wonder!'
-- 'A dozen year,' he told her.
-- 'I must kiss the hand,' said she, 'that has worked in this fine factory for a dozen year!'
-- But there's not a dozen men amoong 'em, ma'am a dozen?
-- 'We will make an example of half a dozen Slackbridges.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He admired its binding, the clearness of its characters, the ease with which it opened in his hand, and repeated aloud, half a dozen times, that it was very, very old.
-- Our tools consisted of two pickaxes, two crowbars, a silken ladder, three iron-shod Alpine poles, a hatchet, a hammer, a dozen wedges, some pointed pieces of iron, and a quantity of strong rope.
-- Nevertheless, if from the distance which separated us from this creature, a distance which must be estimated at not less than a dozen leagues, one could see the column of water spurting from the blow-hole of the great animal, his dimensions must be something preternatural.
-- "Certainly, Harry; a dozen if you think proper."
-- We followed an almost horizontal direction; when, at the end of about a dozen paces, our further advance was checked by the interposition of an enormous block of granite rock.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Wilkes always had at least a dozen darkies busy running back and forth withtrays to serve the guests.
-- There were cries of greeting from a dozen voices and Stuart and Brent Tarleton moved towardher.
-- Frank Kennedy fussed about like a hen withone chick, running back and forth from the shade of the oak to the tables to fetch dainties to tempt Scarlett, as if therewere not a dozen servants there for that purpose.
-- And then it's generally tosome desperate old widower with a large plantation and a dozen children.
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