Dozen

(pl. ) of Dozen

(n.) A collection of twelve objects; a tale or set of twelve; with or without of before the substantive which follows.

(n.) An indefinite small number.

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• Why, I am a boy, sir, to half a dozen old codgers here! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• A dozen year,' he told her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• But there's not a dozen men amoong 'em, ma'am—a dozen? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Turning, I saw a dozen black pirates dashing toward us from the melee. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Half a dozen able-bodied men were standing in a line from the well-mouth, holding a rope which passed over the well-roller into the depths below. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• He ran his thumbnail around the edge of the box and, opening the lid, handed them to Pablo who took half a dozen. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Mrs. Joe has been out a dozen times, looking for you, Pip. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• The house had stood on a tottering base for a dozen years; and at last, in the shock of the French Revolution, it had rushed down a total ruin. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Half a dozen gentlemen of her friends stood about her. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Now, if 't hadn't been for me today, she'd a been took a dozen times. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• There's stabling in this place for a dozen horses; and unless Nickits is belied, he kept the full number. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• A dozen lesser therns confronted us from a large doorway at the opposite end of the storeroom from which we had entered. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• And furthermore, that in practically every case the actual patented invention followed from one to a dozen or more gradually developing forms of the same idea. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I have not been in town half-a-dozen hours, and those I have been dozing and grumbling away at the play. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I must kiss the hand,' said she, 'that has worked in this fine factory for a dozen year! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Dozens of photographs of this sort, and all inscribed in this manner, were completed before I left Cumberland, and hundreds more remain to be done. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The maids do their work very well, and I think we shall be able to send back some dozens of the rings. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• There were hundreds of baronets in England, and dozens of landowners in Hampshire. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• That a young woman, with dozens of nice walks to choose from, and company to go with her, if she only said Come! 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• I don't want dozens of people who are not at all worthy of Ladybird, to come here looking after her, said Miss Pross. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• He was almost crying, and scattered the buds about by dozens. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• You have seen it on dozens of girls, and you never found out that it was pretty till now--stupide! 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Then he showed me dozens of them. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Dozens of eager faces pressed about me--dozens of eager arms parted the crowd. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I have seen it dozens of times, and it's always as new to me as if I had never seen it before! 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• There's plenty of room for dozens inside, and splendid grounds outside. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Younger and plainer girls had been married off by dozens, and she was nine-and-twenty, and still Miss Bart. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.

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