隨口說的「好幾十」
數字被放掉了，只留下「一堆」的感覺：說話的人不是真的數過十二個，而是想表達多到懶得算。
a large uncounted number · number · B1
A large number of things — many, but not counted exactly.
好幾十 / 很多
核心畫面
One way to picture dozen: the egg box — twelve, counted in one go. Because twelve is already a handful, English also uses the word loosely when the number is simply large and nobody is counting.
可以想成 dozen 是那盒雞蛋：十二個，一次數完。也因為十二已經算是一小堆了，英文乾脆把這個字拿來當「很多」用，這…更多收起
可以想成 dozen 是那盒雞蛋：十二個，一次數完。也因為十二已經算是一小堆了，英文乾脆把這個字拿來當「很多」用，這時候根本沒有人在數。From the picture
Also in this word
twelve · number · B1
A group of twelve things.
一打（十二個）
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
dozennoun詞源 1/ˈdʌzən/
- 1
A set of twelve.
- Can I have a dozen eggs, please?
- I ordered two dozen doughnuts.
- 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
engineeringmetallurgynatural-sciencesAn old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.
- The dozen as a measure for iron ore remained almost completely constant at 12 cwts. during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
- 4
bingogamesThe number twelve.
dozennoun詞源 2/ˈdʌzən/
- 1
derogatoryA member of a K-pop group who has no talent.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。