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单词 dozen
释义
dozen
noun[C],determiner
uk
/ˈdʌz.ən/us
/ˈdʌz.ən/
B1
twelve:
十二个，一打
a dozeneggs一打鸡蛋
Thisrecipemakes three dozencookies.这份配料能做三打小甜饼。
Could you get mehalfadozen(= six)eggswhen you go to thesupermarket?你去超市时给我捎半打鸡蛋好吗？
informalI'vespokento him dozensof(= many)times, but I still don'tknowhisname!虽然我和他说过很多次话，但我连他的名字都还不知道！
Therefugeesarrivedby thedozen/intheirdozens(= inlargenumbers).难民们成群结队地到来。
More examples
  • Mostpeoplewould behard-pressedtonamemore thanhalfa dozenmembersof thegovernment.
  • Hesenta dozenrosesto hisbetrothed.
  • Mostofficebuildingshave dozens ofairductsandvents.
  • There are dozens of differentdyestochoosefrom.
  • Bookslike this are adimea dozen.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Numbers: groups of things according to number
  • baker's dozen
  • brace
  • companion
  • couple
  • dyad
  • dyadic
  • gross
  • null
  • pair
  • score
  • triad
  • trinity
  • trio
  • twosome

Idiom

nineteen/ten to the dozen
(Definition ofdozenfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

dozen| American Dictionary

dozen
noun[C]
us
/ˈdʌz·ən/
agrouporcollectionof twelve:
a dozeneggs
Ibroughthomeahalfdozen/halfa dozen(= six)eggs.
(Definition ofdozenfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

dozen| Business English

dozen
noun[C]
uk
/ˈdʌzən/us
(abbreviationdoz.)
agroupof twelve things:
Mostpeopleknowonly a few big-nameinsurersbut there are about two dozen.
dozens
[plural]
alargebut notexactnumber:
Shecoordinatestheworkof dozens ofemployees.

dozen

adjective
Thetableshowsaveragebasicsalariesin thetopdozencountries.
(Definition ofdozenfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdozen

dozen
Accordingly, in our reports over the last several years, we have made dozens of specific recommendations to individual agencies.
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Shortly after such dances commence, dozens of newly recruited foragers arrive at the food source being advertised.
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The narrator's dark sentiments register most memorably in dozens of brief, sharply ironic observations on human greed, cruelty, self-delusion, and suffering.
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At the end of the 1960s their numbers had already reached several dozens.
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They grumbled about supervisors, poor wages, long hours, bad work rules and dozens of other issues.
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Maximilian, however, had little more success than the dozens of caudillos before him.
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Furthermore, dozens of empirical studies find the predicted density effects.
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Instead, the literally dozens of studies on regime type have examined the entire universe of countries in the world for which there is data.
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The first author of this paper has based literally dozens of other implementations on it, unifying datatypes representing many different kinds of terms.
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In it are found dozens of increasingly picaresque and abbreviated sections depicting folk dances, ballroom dances, waltzes, marches, polkas - you name it.
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He has published dozens of articles in scholarly journals, written and edited numerous books, and delivered hundreds of presentations at conferences around the world.
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He suggests that dozens more were sentenced to shorter terms or fined.
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Echoes of these arguments can be found in dozens of communities, though they usually went unrecorded.
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Through these positions, he befriended dozens of world leaders.
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His correspondence was voluminous, and for all those who offered him material, there were dozens more to whom he provided much-sought answers.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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