| 词组 | dozen |
| 释义 | dozen Dozen has two plurals, a zero form dozen (just like the singular) and an inflected dozens. When a number is put before the noun, the zero form plural is used: • He that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots — Shakespeare, I Henry IV, 1598 • ... stript away ten dozen Yards of Fringe —Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub, 1710 • ... several million dozen pairs —B. Eldred Ellis, Gloves and the Glove Trade, 1921 • ... consuming... twelve dozen oysters, eight quarts of orange juice —Frank Sullivan, The Night the Old Nostalgia Burned Down, 1953 When the number is not specified, dozens is used: • ... worked in dozens of minor roles in television plays —Current Biography, June 1965 Evans 1957 notes that of used to be common after dozen: • I bought you a dozen of shirts —Shakespeare, Henry IV, 1598 • ... a dozen or so of people were sitting about — Archibald Marshall, Anthony Dare, 1923 This construction is now felt to be old-fashioned and is no longer used much. We do, of course, retain of after dozens: • Dozens of times since ... I have been asked ... — Joseph Wood Krutch, American Scholar, Spring 1955 |
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