dozen的意思|dozen的解释-里氏词典

dozen ['dʌzn]

n. 打, 十二个

a. 一打的

My mother bought a dozen eggs.
我妈妈买了一打鸡蛋。
I had bred a dozen of chickens.
我饲养了12只小鸡。
Eggs sell by the dozen.
蛋按打出售。

dozen

[ noun ]

the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one

<noun.quantity>

[ adj ]

denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units

<adj.all>

Dozen \Doz"en\ (d[u^]z"'n), n.; pl. {Dozen} (before another
noun), {Dozens} (d[u^]z"'nz). [OE. doseine, dosein, OF.
doseine, F. douzaine, fr. douze twelve, fr. L. duodecim; duo
two + decem ten. See {Two}, {Ten}, and cf. {Duodecimal}.]
1. A collection of twelve objects; a tale or set of twelve;
with or without of before the substantive which follows.
``Some six or seven dozen of Scots.'' ``A dozen of shirts
to your back.'' ``A dozen sons.'' ``Half a dozen
friends.'' --Shak.

2. An indefinite small number. --Milton.

{A baker's dozen}, thirteen; -- called also a {long dozen}.

Dozen \Doz"en\ (d[u^]z"'n), n.; pl. {Dozen} (before another
noun), {Dozens} (d[u^]z"'nz). [OE. doseine, dosein, OF.
doseine, F. douzaine, fr. douze twelve, fr. L. duodecim; duo
two + decem ten. See {Two}, {Ten}, and cf. {Duodecimal}.]
1. A collection of twelve objects; a tale or set of twelve;
with or without of before the substantive which follows.
``Some six or seven dozen of Scots.'' ``A dozen of shirts
to your back.'' ``A dozen sons.'' ``Half a dozen
friends.'' --Shak.

2. An indefinite small number. --Milton.

{A baker's dozen}, thirteen; -- called also a {long dozen}.

It is expected to be enlarged from its current dozen members to include the heads of the 15 republic parties, although this is not specified in the published proposal.
Twenty-three bodies were found in a dozen construction workers' sheds destroyed by the fire, the report said.
A voracious reader, he has written a dozen stylish books of political comment and reminiscences.
This year's shipments, primarily from Australia and New Zealand but also more than a dozen other countries, are forecast at 2.08 billion pounds, nearly twice the amount of exports.
James D. Watkins, as the first career military man to head the Department of Energy, which devotes two-thirds of its budget to developing, building and testing the nation's nuclear arsenal at a network of 15 major plants in a dozen states.
They met Lhasa's only outgoing flight each morning and intercepted the few dozen passengers in hopes of obtaining updates on conditions in the city.
More than a half dozen tornadoes accompanying the hurricane hit the Brownsville area today in advance of the center of the storm, blowing over at least two homes and injuring one person, a boy who suffered a minor head wound.
Moreover, the bank is struggling to come up with a plan to deal with at least two dozen Texas S&Ls that are still open but insolvent.
Since then, nearly a dozen banks and thrifts have pored over the unit's records and considered bids but many were believed to have dropped out of the running earlier this month because of Gibraltar's deteriorating condition.
But Kremin said more than a dozen witnesses will swear that nothing was thrown at the rescue workers.
He adds that the test has faultlessly identified more than a dozen known carcinogenic substances in experiments on its reliability.
In the AIDS epidemic, PCR has a half dozen distinct uses, according to Gerald Schochetman of the CDC.
After calling more than a dozen carriers, she says, she finally found coverage that costs more than $1,200 a year.
Bob LaSalle, one of about two dozen hunters who fled the fire, said a hunter in another camp told him the fire started from a spark from a cookstove.
Today, it is 31 feet shorter after losing about a dozen layers and its capstone.
A good reason for writing notes a few at a time is that it's easier to make the words of thanks spontaneous and sincere than if you tackle several dozen notes at once.
Smith told the jury that she and the mayor snorted cocaine powder at her Capitol Hill home "maybe five times" in 1983 and up to half a dozen times a year after that until 1986 when she stopped using the drug with him.
Indian police have raided the Golden Temple a dozen times in the last two years, but such raids are a political as well as a military risk because Sikhs consider them a desecration of their holy shrine.
At the referee's whistle, Illinois and teams from Michigan State, Texas A&M and North and South Dakota state universities move in around several dozen half-ton sides of beef swinging from hooks near the ceiling of the cavelike cooler.
The trustee, Milbank Tweed partner Francis Musselman, said all but two dozen of Finley Kumble's 284 partners have pledged contributions toward the firm's huge debt.
The base agreement, covering Clark Air Base, Subic Bay naval station and four smaller installations, expires in September 1991, and a dozen of the 23 members of the country's Senate favor closing them.
Its members captured almost two dozen of the 80 seats in parliament _ far ahead of any rival faction but not enough to dominate legislation.
Saddam Hussein's dozen years of iron-fisted rule have held together Iraq's crazy quilt of religious sects and ethnic groups.
But the tide may be turning against "Big Green," a sweeping environmental issue in California, as well as many of the anti-tax, anti-spending measures facing voters in about a dozen states.
These letters narrate his conquest and command of his subject: a 44-year-old English lady novelist (a mix of Iris Murdoch and Doris Lessing) whom he's been studying and lecturing on for a dozen years.
The church defrocked him in January 1988, but he was able to find a dozen or more people who listened.
Nickens asked Friday after a jury convicted Barry of a single cocaine-possession charge and acquitted him of another, with a mistrial declared on a dozen other counts.
Shareholders will rock to the live music of Richie Havens, Livingston Taylor, Toots & the Maytals and a dozen other bands.
The report will include a statement alleging that Wright violated House rules in several dozen instances, said a source familiar with the investigation.
After the box office sold out, a couple dozen Soviets began offering to scalp their seats for 25 rubles each.

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