dozen

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n. 打, 十二个 a. 一打的

发音

US /ˈdʌzən/

词形变化

dozens 复数

别名

doz

释义与例句

n. B2 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    A set of twelve.

    Can I have a dozen eggs, please?

    I ordered two dozen doughnuts.

    There are hundreds of people from each continent in the convention but only a few dozen came from Africa.

    Pack the shirts in dozens, please.

  2. 2.

    A large, unspecified number of, comfortably estimated in small multiples of twelve, thus generally implied to be significantly more than ten or twelve, but less than perhaps one or two hundred; many.

    There must have been dozens of examples just on the first page.

    There were dozens and dozens of applicants before the job was posted.

  3. 3.

    An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.

    工程
  4. 4.

    The number twelve.

    游戏
  5. 1.

    A member of a K-pop group who has no talent.

    贬义

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

twelve 12

下位词 1

boxcars

相关短语

a dime a dozen 多得很,不值钱 six of one, half a dozen of the other 半斤八两 six to one, half dozen to another baker's dozen n. 十三 bakers dozen Botany Bay dozen cheaper by the dozen twenty to the dozen long dozen 十三个 half dozen 半打 half a dozen adj. 半打，六个 banker's dozen baker's half dozen double dozen decimal dozen

词源

From Middle English dozen, dozein, doseyne, from Old French dozaine (“a group of twelve”) (Modern French douzaine), from doze (“twelve”) + -aine (“-ish”), from Latin duodecim (“twelve”) (from duo (“two”) + decem (“ten”)) + -ana (“-ish”).

来源：wiktionary