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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the finest of all possible Whit Mondays, and down the village street stood a row of nearly a dozen booths, a shooting gallery, and on the grass by the forge were three yellow and chocolate waggons and some picturesque strangers of both sexes putting up a cocoanut shy.
-- In the corner by the fireplace lay the fragments of half a dozen smashed bottles, and a pungent twang of chlorine tainted the air.
-- While these things were going on in the parlour, and while Mr. Huxter was watching Mr. Marvel smoking his pipe against the gate, not a dozen yards away were Mr. Hall and Teddy Henfrey discussing in a state of cloudy puzzlement the one Iping topic.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The noiseless shadow halted a dozen yards from me.
-- As I watched them disposing of the mangled remains of M'ling, I heard a light footfall behind me, and turning quickly saw the big Hyena-swine perhaps a dozen yards away.
-- I was perhaps a dozen seconds collecting myself.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said half a dozen low voic-es (every ruin in India becomes sooner or later a dwelling place of snakes, and the old summerhouse was alive with cobras).
-- Kaa looked carefully till he found a discolored crack in the marble tracery showing a weak spot, made two or three light taps with his head to get the distance, and then lifting up six feet of his body clear of the ground, sent home half a dozen full-power smashing blows, nose-first.
-- Bagheera gave him half a dozen love-taps from a pan-ther's point of view (they would hardly have waked one of his own cubs), but for a seven-year-old boy they amounted to as severe a beating as you could wish to avoid.
-- The crowd parted as the woman beckoned Mowgli to her hut, where there was a red lacquered bedstead, a great earthen grain chest with funny raised patterns on it, half a dozen copper cooking pots, an image of a Hindu god in a little alcove, and on the wall a real looking glass, such as they sell at the country fairs.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Winding its way among countless islands, and imbedded in mountains, the 'holy lake' extended a dozen leagues still further to the south.
-- At this spot were gathered some half dozen horses, caparisoned in a manner which showed that two, at least, were destined to bear the persons of females, of a rank that it was not usu-al to meet so far in the wilds of the country.
-- Placing their arms in the little vessel a dozen men clinging to its sides had trusted themselves to the direction of the canoe, which was controlled by two of the most skillful warriors, in attitudes that enabled them to command a view of the dangerous pas-sage.
-- repeated Heyward; when the summons was renewed by a dozen voices, each of which seemed charged with menace.
-- For the custom-ary attentions of your Marquis of Montcalm I warrant me, Duncan, that he of Lothian would buy a dozen such marquisates but if the news of the letter were bad, the gentility of this French monsieur would certainly compel him to let us know it.'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She tried to talk to him, partly by signs, partly in pidgin French, which, for some reason, she thought would be more comprehensible to him, and she had half a dozen phrases of English.
-- There were about half a dozen portraits.
-- There are a dozen ways in which this might be managed.
-- Yet he was a man who had faced undaunted hurricane and typhoon, and would not have hesitated to fight a dozen unarmed niggers with nothing but a revolver to help him.
-- They lived with him a month, sleeping with a dozen others, Swedes, negroes, Brazilians, on the floor of the two bare rooms in his house which he assigned to his charges; and every day they went with him to the Place Victor Gelu, whither came ships' captains in search of a man.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A few dozen being collected, were packed in the sailor's handkerchief, and as the time when the tide would be full was approaching, Pencroft and Herbert began to redescend towards the watercourse.
-- Two dozen eggs were brought by Herbert.
-- Pencroft had found among the grass half a dozen grouse nests, each having three or four eggs.
-- said the sailor, "there is plenty of food at the Chimneys, for you must know, captain, that down there, in the south, we have a house, with rooms, beds, and fireplace, and in the pantry, several dozen of birds, which our Herbert calls couroucous.
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