dozen
US:/ˈdʌz(ə)n/
UK:/'dʌz(ə)n/
n.:
很多；（一）打；十二个；十来个
网络:
一打；12个；许多
Examples
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.
比利很有女人缘，每次我们出去喝酒，他至少要接听一打来自漂亮女孩的电话。
2.
The next morning the barber found a dozen bibles at the door to his shop.
第二天早上理发师发现店门口有一打圣经。
3.
In most cases, half a dozen of both units is all that is required to overcome most obstacles.
在大多数情况下，拥有各半打海豚和水翼艇就可以应付大多数阻碍了。
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.
那时已接近深夜，他和其它六个人在围绕着我们的汽车，站在一个布满雪花的山路上，眼睛凝视着检查站。
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.
这一点点提高看起来不过如此，但是记住，一名结核病人一年可以传染给超过一打的其它人。
6.
Much of South Korea's wealth is concentrated in just a few dozen large conglomerates, known as chaebol, such as the Samsung group.
韩国的不少财富都集中在三星集团这样的少数几十家大企业集团手中。
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.
如果你子类化的控件仅有几个，那么这种方法仍可行。但是当你子类化一打（十二个）左右的控件时它将是一个恶梦。
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.
我和女朋友已经一起生活了十几年，而这些研究结果似乎很明确，所以我回家之后提了一个建议。
9.
He had come half a dozen times to call upon his sister.
他曾来过五六次看他的姐姐。
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.
“哦，”警察说：“当我们把她拉上来时，她身上有两个5磅的龙虾和12个邓杰内斯蟹。”