Dozen
['dʌz(ə)n] or ['dʌzn]
解釋/意思:
(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.
編輯:沃尔夫冈
同義詞及近義詞:
a. Twelve.
格特鲁德編輯
解釋/意思:
adj. two and ten or twelve.—n. a collection of twelve articles.—adj. Doz′enth.—Baker's dozen Devil's dozen thirteen.
錄入:梅利特
例句/造句/用法:
- Why, I am a boy, sir, to half a dozen old codgers here! 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- A dozen year,' he told her. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- But there's not a dozen men amoong 'em, ma'am—a dozen? 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Turning, I saw a dozen black pirates dashing toward us from the melee. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- 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. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- He ran his thumbnail around the edge of the box and, opening the lid, handed them to Pablo who took half a dozen. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Mrs. Joe has been out a dozen times, looking for you, Pip. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- 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. 雪麗.
- Half a dozen gentlemen of her friends stood about her. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Now, if 't hadn't been for me today, she'd a been took a dozen times. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- There's stabling in this place for a dozen horses; and unless Nickits is belied, he kept the full number. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- A dozen lesser therns confronted us from a large doorway at the opposite end of the storeroom from which we had entered. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- 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. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I have not been in town half-a-dozen hours, and those I have been dozing and grumbling away at the play. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- I must kiss the hand,' said she, 'that has worked in this fine factory for a dozen year! 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- 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. 威爾基·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. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- There were hundreds of baronets in England, and dozens of landowners in Hampshire. 威爾基·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! 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I don't want dozens of people who are not at all worthy of Ladybird, to come here looking after her, said Miss Pross. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- He was almost crying, and scattered the buds about by dozens. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- You have seen it on dozens of girls, and you never found out that it was pretty till now--stupide! 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Then he showed me dozens of them. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Dozens of eager faces pressed about me--dozens of eager arms parted the crowd. 威爾基·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! 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- There's plenty of room for dozens inside, and splendid grounds outside. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Younger and plainer girls had been married off by dozens, and she was nine-and-twenty, and still Miss Bart. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
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