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About two dozen unionists staged a protest to call for the immediate setting up of a minimum wage and maximum working hours.

十二个工会团体集会，要求政府立即制订最低工资及标准工时。

People come from all over the country to see who can shuck two-dozen oysters the quickest and the best.

全国各地的人们会前来观看谁能在最短的时间内，完美的剥下两打牡蛎。

She alighted with her young daughter Piper, posed for a picture with a tourist and hurried past two dozen reporters and photographers.

佩林和她的年轻的女儿彼佩一起，摆姿势与游人合影，之后赶紧避开一群记者和摄影师。

Already there were two dozen young men in the place; he found a cornerwhere he stood waiting his turn to be interviewed.

那儿已经来了20多个年轻人，他找了个角落等待着轮到自己面试。

At the time, fewer than two dozen of these stem cell lines were of good enough quality to use as a basis for human treatments.

当时，有不超过一打的高品质干细胞能当作人类治疗的主要成分。

Britain, it is said, may have looked isolated after some two dozen countries signed up to the latest half-baked wheeze to save the euro.

虽说在二十几个国家为了给欧盟以喘息之机签字后，英国看起来是被孤立了。

I returned a few hours later, after two dozen laps around the block, 300 jump shots and a half-hour of tossing the football to myself.

我绕着街区跑了24圈，跳起投篮300下，抛接橄榄球30分钟，就这样一直玩了几个小时才回家。

Alone among Osama's two dozen or so children, Omar was selected by his father to accompany him to Afghanistan.

之后，在奥沙马的二十几个孩子中，奥马尔被父亲选中随他前往阿富汗。

And within the next several months, he expects to find at least two dozen of the most important genetic determinants of intelligence.

在此后的几个月里，他期望发现至少两打最为重要的智力遗传决定因素。

As he had in the two dozen debates in the primary season, Mr. Obama remained cool, which many took for a lack of fight or passion.

就像在初选时二十来个辩论中一样，奥巴马还是那么酷，会被人误认为没斗志没激情。

Five minutes later, the door opened and about two dozen people flooded out, down the stairs and into the night, saying nothing.

五分钟后，门打开了，大约两打人涌出来。他们一声不吭地下了楼梯，走入夜幕。

Close to two dozen boutiques, some of which still flourish elsewhere, have called it quits on Columbus over the last four years.

最近四年哥伦布大道上，差不多二十多家服装店（有些家别处的分店生意仍然鼎盛）已经歇业。

With a shriek, two dozen bansheerays flash down out of the sky, Na'vi on their backs.

随着一阵尖叫，更多的斑溪从空中闪降，它们的背上是纳威人。

The number of twitchers has exploded in the past few years, with a few thousand members in two dozen clubs.

但在近几年里，观鸟的人数猛增，全国24家协会拥有几千名会员。

After graduation in 2001, Lagat began to run competitively and won more than two dozen races at the grand-prix level.

2001年毕业后，拉加特开始参加职业比赛，先后赢得了20多次大赛的冠军。

Two dozen zombies, their clothes spattered with fake blood, were staggering up and down the block outside Madison Square Garden.

二十多个僵尸浑身“血迹”斑斑，踉踉跄跄地徘徊在麦迪逊广场花园外的街区上。

At least five people were killed and more than two dozen were injured as a section of the plant collapsed and burned.

截至目前统计共有五人遇难，数十人受伤，一栋建筑烧毁倒塌。

Chan is believed to have at least two dozen endorsement contracts at present.

目前成龙相信将至少有24个广告合同要签订。

Shakespeare wrote more than two dozen plays about love. . . even though the emotion itself would not be invented for another forty years!

莎士比亚写了二十几本关于爱情的剧本…尽管感情这个词本身的发明还不到四十年！

Two dozen people came up to me, complaining that I was staring at furniture instead of helping customers.

好几十人过来找我说你怎么只顾着看家具都不给客人提供服务的。