【正文】 s 。Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.（亞伯拉罕林肯，葛底斯堡演講）八十七年前，我們的先輩在這個(gè)大陸上創(chuàng)立了一個(gè)新的國(guó)家，它孕育于自由之中，奉行一切人生來(lái)平等的原則。I can give you a hundred reasons for not 。About three million workers were on 。He was prepared to pay two million（dollars）.他愿意支付200萬(wàn)（美元）。、準(zhǔn)確的數(shù)量，而是形容很多時(shí)，需用復(fù)數(shù)，且要與介詞of連用，有時(shí)還與另一個(gè)或幾個(gè)特殊數(shù)詞重疊，以加強(qiáng)語(yǔ)氣，被修飾的名詞不與定冠詞the連用，基本句型為：特殊數(shù)詞復(fù)數(shù)（＋另一個(gè)或幾個(gè)特殊數(shù)詞復(fù)數(shù)）＋of＋名詞。如：He planned to buy dozens of reference 。I39。ve seen this phenomenon hundreds of 。The sun was of people were lying on the ，數(shù)以千計(jì)的人躺在海灘上。She won the lawsuit and received millions of dollars in ,獲得了幾百萬(wàn)美元的賠償。The city subways carry hundreds of thousands of passengers a 。Hundreds of millions of people across the world held their one was anxiously watching a tiny robot on their TV ，焦急地注視著電視屏幕里的微型機(jī)器人。這些不具體、準(zhǔn)確的數(shù)量前還可以加上a few, some, several，many等不具體、確定的形容詞。如：several dozens of port wine 數(shù)十瓶葡萄酒 some scores of volunteers 幾十名志愿者 some thousands of books 幾千本書Several hundreds of people gathered in front of the hall，waiting for the president to meet 。Why some millions of Californians choose not to prepare for disaster？數(shù)百萬(wàn)加州人為什么選擇不作防災(zāi)準(zhǔn)備？，不用復(fù)數(shù)，且后面緊跟of＋the或these, those，my, our等限定詞引導(dǎo)的該整體，基本句型為：數(shù)詞＋特殊數(shù)詞單數(shù)＋of＋the/these/those, etc.＋（描繪性形容詞＋）名詞。如：I want three dozen of these 。（這些雞蛋不止三打）About three hundred of the students in our school will graduate this 。（我校學(xué)生不止300）Half a thousand of our employees are college 。（五百員工是我廠員工中的一部分）Many millions of Indian women are married against their 。（數(shù)百萬(wàn)是印度婦女中的少數(shù)），score，hundred等還常與by，偶爾也與in等介詞連用，構(gòu)成固定短語(yǔ),表示以某數(shù)為批量，用特殊數(shù)詞單數(shù)，若是形容很多，特殊數(shù)詞常用復(fù)數(shù)。例如：We buy tea by the pound, cloth by the yard and eggs by the , 買布以碼計(jì),買蛋以打計(jì)。The shop sells 2B pencils by the long 。We were monthly losing ships, including valuable tankers, by the , 包括昂貴的油船,以數(shù)十計(jì)。The allied warplanes bombed the country by the 。The ants arrived at the piic by the 。Our candidate will rake in votes by the 。Books are being scanned into digital form by the 3 萬(wàn)冊(cè)圖書正在被掃描成數(shù)字格式。They came in 。，這些特殊數(shù)詞可直接代替它們所修飾的名詞，這時(shí)它們都要用復(fù)數(shù)。如：Of the apples we bought yesterday, more than three dozens were ，有二十多個(gè)都爛掉了。（three dozens＝three dozens of the apples）The US embassy slammed the ‘horrific’ Nigerian massacre where hundreds were 。（hundreds＝hundreds of people）The government has decided to invest eight hundred millions in the project.（eight hundred millions＝eight hundred million yuan or dollars）政府已決定在該項(xiàng)目上投資8個(gè)億。，它們的復(fù)數(shù)形式和單數(shù)形式意義有所不同。如：There are eighty thousand books in our school I have read some hundred of ，我已讀了大約一百本。（some＝about）There are eighty thousand books in our school I have read some hundreds of ，我已讀了幾百本。（some＝several）Some two thousand years ago，in a river in ancient India，there was a pond full of ，古印度有一條小河，其中有個(gè)滿是魚兒的水塘。（some＝about）These college students have presented some thousands of books to the leftbehind children in our village in the last four 。，而hundred，thousand，million，billion和trillion則比較少見(jiàn)，在此不贅述。Dozen和score的主要搭配如下：dozen：dozens of 很多；許多a dime a dozen多得很；不稀罕；不值錢a baker39。s(devil39。s, printer39。s, long)dozen十三個(gè) dozens of times 屢次；多次talk thirteen(nineteen)to the dozen 喋喋不休；說(shuō)個(gè)不停 six of one and half a dozen of the other 半斤八兩；毫無(wú)區(qū)別score：go off at full score（馬）突然向前猛沖；（人）突然開始講或作have an old score to settle with跟……有舊怨 make a score off駁倒……；說(shuō)得無(wú)話可說(shuō)make a score off one39。s own bat獨(dú)立做；自力更生 on a new score重新on more scores than one由于許多原因 on that score因此；在那一點(diǎn)上 on the same score用同樣的理由 on the score of因?yàn)椋粸榱藀ay(wipe)off a score付清欠賬；還清債務(wù)pay off old scores＝to quit the scores報(bào)宿怨；雪舊恨 quit score with跟……結(jié)清前賬；向……報(bào)復(fù) run up scores at對(duì)……負(fù)債累累 know the score知道事實(shí)真相；精通世故——正文完——主要參考文獻(xiàn)：1． 霍恩比，《牛津高階英漢雙解詞典》，牛津大學(xué)出版社、商務(wù)印書館，1997年第四版 2． 張道真、溫志達(dá)，英語(yǔ)語(yǔ)法大全（上），1998年第一版 3． 新東方英語(yǔ)句庫(kù)：． 可可英語(yǔ)網(wǎng)：hundred, thousand和million的用法說(shuō)明 ://5． 恒星英語(yǔ)網(wǎng)：dozen, score, hundred, thousand, million用法要點(diǎn) :// 6