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《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Happily, they found there, neither a formidable wild beast nor a dangerous native, but merely half a dozen mocking and singing birds, known as mountain pheasants.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old gentleman, the old lady, the pony, and the chaise, came up the street in perfect unanimity, until they arrived within some half a dozen doors of the Notary's house, when the pony, deceived by a brass-plate beneath a tailor's knocker, came to a halt, and maintained by a sturdy silence, that that was the house they wanted.
-- Soon afterwards another white-headed little boy came straggling in, and after him a red-headed lad, and after him two more with white heads, and then one with a flaxen poll, and so on until the forms were occupied by a dozen boys or thereabouts, with heads of every colour but grey, and ranging in their ages from four years old to fourteen years or more; for the legs of the youngest were a long way from the floor when he sat upon the form, and the eldest was a heavy good-tempered foolish fellow, about half a head taller than the schoolmaster.
-- But he's worth a dozen men, and I let him say of me whatever he likes in consequence he knows that.'
-- What was all this though even all this to the extraordinary dissipation that ensued, when Kit, walking into an oyster-shop as bold as if he lived there, and not so much as looking at the counter or the man behind it, led his party into a box a private box, fitted up with red curtains, white table-cloth, and cruet-stand complete and ordered a fierce gentleman with whiskers, who acted as waiter and called him, him Christopher Nubbles, 'sir,' to bring three dozen of his largest-sized oysters, and to look sharp about it!Yes, Kit told this gentleman to look sharp, and he not only said he would look sharp, but he actually did, and presently came running back with the newest loaves, and the freshest butter, and the largest oysters, ever seen.
-- cries Brass, who has heard the same thing in the same place from the same person in the same words a dozen times, but is paralysed with astonishment notwithstanding.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He then picked out the first of a dozen scarfs and pins that came into his hand--it was no more novel and amusing, as it used to be--and he was quite indifferent as to which he put on.
-- All this was taking place in the court-yard of the prison, while without the prison stood the usual armed soldier, about two dozen trucks for the baggage, and the infirm convicts, and on the corner a crowd of relatives and friends of the convicts, waiting for a chance to see the exiles as they emerged from the prison, and, if possible, to have a last few words with them, or deliver some things they had brought for them.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were also perhaps a dozen candles about, two in brass candlesticks upon the mantel and several in sconces, so that the room was brilliantly illuminated.
-- And besides, they looked so frail that I could fancy myself flinging the whole dozen of them about like ninepins.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world, but lay there, trembling and listening, in the extreme of fear and curiosity, for from these dozen words I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended upon me alone.
-- Then, leaving Joyce to guard them one man, to be sure, but with half a dozen muskets Hunter and I returned to the jolly-boat and loaded ourselves once more.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After we had proceeded a dozen yards, a second door opened before me.
-- A dozen diving apparatuses hung from the partition waiting our use.
-- Conseil brought a dozen to Ned Land, who placed them on a coal fire, after having cut them in thick slices, and while doing this repeating:"You will see, master, how good this bread is.
-- The Canadian skinned and cleaned it properly, after having taken half a dozen cutlets, destined to furnish us with a grilled repast in the evening.
-- But he contented himself with a single dozen of these interesting marsupians.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the large darkish kitchen of the mill, the labourer's wife was talking shrilly to Hermione and Gerald, who stood, he in white and she in a glistening bluish foulard, strangely luminous in the dusk of the room; whilst from the cages on the walls, a dozen or more canaries sang at the top of their voices.
-- A dozen or more boats on the lake swung their rosy and moon-like lanterns low on the water, that reflected as from a fire.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This proceeding aroused the whole hive: half a dozen four footed fiends, of various sizes and ages, issued from hidden dens to the common centre.
-- Hareton, drive those dozen sheep into the barn porch.
-- I'm annoyed how I should dream of chattering on at such a rate; and your gruel cold, and you nodding for bed!I could have told Heathcliff's history, all that you need hear, in half a dozen words.
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