dozen
英 ['d?z(?)n]
美['d?zn]
- n. 十二個(gè)，一打
- adj. 一打的
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詞態(tài)變化
復(fù)數(shù):?dozens;
助記提示
1. 音譯“打”，因?yàn)橹C音是“打人”，所以音譯時(shí)取了“打人”的“打”字。
中文詞源
dozen 十二個(gè)
來(lái)自拉丁語(yǔ)duodecim, 十二，duo, 二，decim, 十。
英文詞源
- dozen
- dozen: [13] Dozen traces its ancestry back to the Latin word for ‘twelve’, duodecim. This was a compound formed from duo ‘two’ and decem ‘ten’. This gradually developed in the postclassical period via *dōdece to *doze, which, with the addition of the suffix -ēna, produced Old French dozeine, source of the English word.
=> duodenum - dozen (n.)
- c. 1300, from Old French dozaine "a dozen," from doze (12c.) "twelve," from Latin duodecim "twelve," from duo "two" + decem "ten" (see ten).
The Old French fem. suffix -aine is characteristically added to cardinals to form collectives in a precise sense ("exactly 12," not "about 12"). The dozens "invective contest" (1928) originated in slave culture, the custom probably African, the word probably from bulldoze (q.v.) in its original sense of "a whipping, a thrashing."
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. Ernest Brown lives about a dozen blocks from where the riots began.
- 歐內(nèi)斯特·布朗住在離騷亂發(fā)生處幾個(gè)街區(qū)遠(yuǎn)的地方。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 2. She loaded me down with around a dozen cassettes.
- 她塞給我十幾盒磁帶。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 3. He sat behind a table on which were half a dozen files.
- 他坐在一張放有6個(gè)文件夾的桌子后面。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 4. The project has gone through nearly a dozen years of planning.
- 該項(xiàng)目已歷經(jīng)近12年的規(guī)劃。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 5. The riot left four people dead and several dozen injured.
- 暴亂中四人喪生，數(shù)十人受傷。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句