Most of the 500 whales stranded off Tasmania have now died. Dozens more stricken whales have been found in Australia’s largest ever mass stranding. The estimated total now stands at around 500, with the majority of that number dead and a tenth rescued by authorities on the Island state of Tasmania.

老师，您好！

在新牛津字典里，我查询dozen的复数形式dozens有个infomal用法，表示a lot的含义，我分析上句中more stricken是比较级，形容鲸鱼受伤比较严重，而dozens相当于a lot ，用来补充修饰受伤的程度，是比较级的补充。我不知道自己的理解对不对，请老师指导帮助。

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