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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A dozen of red partridges and rays were speedily brought down, and Glenarvan also managed very cleverly to kill a TAY-TETRE, or peccary, a pachydermatous animal, the flesh of which is excellent eating.
-- Wilson had a good idea to begin with, which he had skilfully carried out; for when Glenarvan came back to the brasier, he found that the brave fellow had actually managed to catch, with only a pin and a piece of string, several dozen small fish, as delicate as smelts, called MOJARRAS, which were all jumping about in a fold of his poncho, ready to be converted into an exquisite dish.
-- Should the west wind continue but a dozen days longer, and the sea remain favorable, the yacht would have reached the end of her voyage.
-- Several bullocks and about half a dozen horses were feeding in meadows, surrounded by acacias supplied from the vast plantations of Kangaroo Island.
-- Paganel muttered in a tone of vexation: "That unlucky document!It may boast of having half-crazed a dozen peoples' wits!"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gania stood at the door like a block and looked on in silence, putting no obstacle in the way of their entrance, and ten or a dozen men marched in behind Parfen Rogojin.
-- As soon as the visitors had crossed the low dark hall, and entered the narrow reception-room, furnished with half a dozen cane chairs, and two small card-tables, Madame Terentieff, in the shrill tones habitual to her, continued her stream of invectives.
-- But he spoke so indistinctly that hardly a dozen words could be gathered.
-- There were some even more dreadful criminals than this one we have been speaking of men who have murdered a dozen of their fellowcreatures, and feel no remorse whatev-er.
-- champagne!That was an interesting item of news, at all events! Twelve bottles!Dear me, that's a very respectable little stock indeed!I bet anything Lebedeff lent somebody money on deposit of this dozen of champagne.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were a couple of trunks indeed, such as a rational man might need, but in addition there were a box of books big, fat books, of which some were just in an incomprehensible handwriting and a dozen or more crates, boxes, and cases, containing objects packed in straw, as it seemed to Hall, tugging with a casual curiosity at the straw glass bottles.
-- She heard a sniff close behind her head as it seemed, and turning, was surprised to see Hall a dozen feet off on the topmost stair.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "He hasn't called more than half a dozen times since we've been here."
-- "Didn't he come here a dozen times while I was away?"
-- "A dozen times," repeated Carrie, guiltily.
-- She looked about and tried to assure herself with the sight of a dozen such details, but, alas, the secondary thought arrived.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The June rise used to be always luck for me; because as soon as that rise begins here comes cord-wood float- ing down, and pieces of log rafts sometimes a dozen logs together; so all you have to do is to catch them and sell them to the wood-yards and the sawmill.
-- I said likely we wouldn't, because I had heard say there warn't but about a dozen houses there, and if they didn't happen to have them lit up, how was we going to know we was passing a town?
-- I sung out for Jim about a dozen times, but I didn't get any answer; so I grabbed a plank that touched me while I was 'treading water,' and struck out for shore, shoving it ahead of me.
-- Well, a half a dozen made a jump to do it, but somebody sings out, 'Let HIM pass the hat around!'
-- and away the sow would go, squealing most horrible, with a dog or two swinging to each ear, and three or four dozen more a-coming; and then you would see all the loafers get up and watch the thing out of sight, and laugh at the fun and look grateful for the noise.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a dozen leaps and bounds, he came to the village, tired out, puffing like a whale, and with tongue hanging.
-- The doctor had put him on a diet, and he had to be satisfied with a small hare dressed with a dozen young and tender spring chickens.
-- After the hare, he ordered some partridges, a few pheasants, a couple of rabbits, and a dozen frogs and lizards.
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