1·As one person ironically put it in the comments section of Schwartz's online article, "As I was reading this very excellent article, I stopped at least half a dozen times to check my email."
正如一个人在施瓦茨的在线文章的评论部分中讽刺地指出的那样，“当我阅读这篇非常出色的文章时，我至少停下来六次来查看我的电子邮件。”
2·Have you ever had someone try to explain something to you a dozen times with no luck?
你有没有遇到，一个人试着向你解释一件事十几遍，都没有成功的情况？
3·You are a dozen times smarter.
你比我聪明得多。
4·Li stands in line at hospitals a dozen times a week.
李奇才一个星期在医院里做12次这样的工作。
5·Didn't he come here a dozen times while I was away?
我不在的时候他来了十几次，是不是？
6·And I've done that at least a dozen times the past couple days.
而且过去一段日子里我每天都得干上好几十次这样的事。
7·More than a dozen times in these years, the car has simply died.
这几年这车已经死过去不下十几回了。
8·Then came the conversation that I replay in my head a dozen times a day.
接下来的对话，我每天都要在脑海中重复无数次。
9·Plaintive and simple, as though I hadn't asked him a dozen times before.
悲哀的并且简单的，正如以前我不下十次的这样问过他。
10·This experiment was repeated several dozen times over the next few weeks.
在接下来的几个星期里，这个实验重复了几十次。