The manager was placed in the awkward/difficult position of having to lay off dozens of workers.经理不得不裁员几十人，因而十分为难。At least five people died and dozens more were injured in a gas explosion just outside Paris.在巴黎市外围的煤气爆炸事故中，至少有五人死亡，几十人受伤。This time the dead were numbered in hundreds, not dozens.这次死亡人数是数以百计，而非几十人。