dozen的意思和读音

dozen

: [ˈdʌz(ə)n] : ['dʌz(ə)n]

n.;(

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dozenn.

1.[c]a group of twelve of the same thing

Give me a dozen, please.

two dozen eggs

three dozen red roses

2.[c]a group of approximately twelve people or things

several dozen/a few dozen people

The company employs no more than a couple of dozen people.

Only about half a dozen people turned up.

There was only space for a half-dozen tables.

3.[pl](informal)a lot of people or things

They arrived in dozens(= in large numbers) .

I've been there dozens of times.

n.1.,2.,

det.1.a set of 12 things or people; a set of about 12 things or people2.lots of things or people

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1.Billy is a bit of a lady's man -- every time we go out for drinks, he gets at least a dozen phone numbers from cute girls.

2.The next morning the barber found a dozen bibles at the door to his shop.

3.In most cases, half a dozen of both units is all that is required to overcome most obstacles.

4.It was close to midnight, and he and a half-dozen peers at the checkpoint stood around our car on the snowy mountain road.

5.That may not sound like much, but remember a person with TB can infect another dozen or so people over the course of a year.

6.Much of South Korea's wealth is concentrated in just a few dozen large conglomerates, known as chaebol, such as the Samsung group.

7.It is ok if you subclass only a few controls but it's going to be a nightmare to subclass a dozen or so controls.

8.My girlfriend and I had been living together for a dozen years, and those findings seemed so clear to me that I went home and proposed.

9.He had come half a dozen times to call upon his sister.

10.Well, said the policeman, When we pulled her up she had two five-pound lobsters and a dozen good size Dungeoness crabs on her.“,”:“512。”