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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A dozen years ago, common decency would have hushed the thing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'A dozen year next Christmas,' returned a cracked voice out of the dimness behind.
-- When he was relieved of the perplexed affairs that nothing would make plain, through having them returned upon his hands by a dozen agents in succession who could make neither beginning, middle, nor end of them or him, he found his miserable place of refuge a quieter refuge than it had been before.
-- You can have a dozen if you like.
-- A dozen years ago, he perfects an invention (involving a very curious secret process) of great importance to his country and his fellow-creatures.
-- I won't say how much money it cost him, or how many years of his life he had been about it, but he brought it to perfection a dozen years ago.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On christmas night, a dozen girls piled onto the bed which was the dress circle, and sat before the blue and yel-low chintz curtains in a most flattering state of expectancy.
-- This was Jo's fa-vorite refuge, and here she loved to retire with half a dozen russets and a nice book, to enjoy the quiet and the society of a pet rat who lived near by and didn't mind her a particle.
-- Half a dozen jovial lads were talking about skates in another part of the room, and she longed to go and join them, for skat-ing was one of the joys of her life.
-- Other friends told the Marches that they had lost all chance of being remembered in the rich old lady's will, but the unworldly Marches only said... 'We can't give up our girls for a dozen fortunes.
-- and did honor to the coming guest by brushing his curly pate, putting on a fresh color, and trying tidy up the room, which in spite of half a dozen servants, was anything but neat.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They are comparatively delicate, indeed; I dare say, not to exceed half a dozen yards round the waist.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At least half a dozen more were severally drawn forth from the same box, and surveyed with equal pleasure; besides rings, brooches, bracelets, and other articles of jewellery, of such magnificent materials, and costly workmanship, that Oliver had no idea, even of their names.
-- And so they go on,' said Mr. Sikes, his wrath rising with the recollection of his wrongs, 'so they go on; and, if they'd got money enough (which it's a Providence they haven't,) we shouldn't have half a dozen boys left in the whole trade, in a year or two.'
-- Near him were the singers: receiving, with professional indifference, the compliments of the company, and applying themselves, in turn, to a dozen proffered glasses of spirits and water, tendered by their more boisterous admirers; whose countenances, expressive of almost every vice in almost every grade, irresistibly attracted the attention, by their very repulsiveness.
-- Mr. Bumble had re-counted the teaspoons, re-weighed the sugar-tongs, made a closer inspection of the milk-pot, and ascertained to a nicety the exact condition of the furniture, down to the very horse-hair seats of the chairs; and had repeated each process full half a dozen times; before he began to think that it was time for Mrs. Corney to return.
-- This done, amidst the breathless interest of all beholders, they came in again; and Mr. Giles and Brittles were put through a melodramatic representation of their share in the previous night's adventures: which they performed some six times over: contradicting each other, in not more than one important respect, the first time, and in not more than a dozen the last.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- About ten or a dozen years ago, before her marriage, she had spent a considerable time in that very part of Derbyshire to which he belonged.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I got on board the ship as before, and prepared a second raft; and, having had experience of the first, I neither made this so unwieldy, nor loaded it so hard, but yet I brought away several things very useful to me; as first, in the carpen-ters stores I found two or three bags full of nails and spikes, a great screw- jack, a dozen or two of hatchets, and, above all, that most useful thing called a grindstone.
-- But preparing the twelfth time to go on board, I found the wind began to rise: however, at low water I went on board, and though I thought I had rummaged the cabin so effectually that nothing more could be found, yet I dis-covered a locker with drawers in it, in one of which I found two or three razors, and one pair of large scissors, with some ten or a dozen of good knives and forks: in another I found about thirty-six pounds value in money - some Eu-ropean coin, some Brazil, some pieces of eight, some gold, and some silver.
-- My clothes, too, began to decay; as to linen, I had had none a good while, except some chequered shirts which I found in the chests of the other seamen, and which I care-fully preserved; because many times I could bear no other clothes on but a shirt; and it was a very great help to me that I had, among all the men's clothes of the ship, almost three dozen of shirts.
-- At last, being eager to view the circum-ference of my little kingdom, I resolved upon my cruise; and accordingly I victualled my ship for the voyage, putting in two dozen of loaves (cakes I should call them) of bar-ley-bread, an earthen pot full of parched rice (a food I ate a good deal of), a little bottle of rum, half a goat, and pow-der and shot for killing more, and two large watch-coats, of those which, as I mentioned before, I had saved out of the seamen's chests; these I took, one to lie upon, and the other to cover me in the night.
-- During all this time I was in a murdering humour, and spent most of my hours, which should have been better employed, in contriving how to circumvent and fall upon them the very next time I should see them - especially if they should be divided, as they were the last time, into two parties; nor did I consider at all that if I killed one party - suppose ten or a dozen - I was still the next day, or week, or month, to kill another, and so another, even AD INFI-NITUM, till I should be, at length, no less a murderer than they were in being man-eaters - and perhaps much more so.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Didn't I take up his name a dozen times in the last month?"
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