Epic
['epɪk] or ['ɛpɪk]
解释:
(adj.) very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale); 'an epic voyage'; 'of heroic proportions'; 'heroic sculpture' .
(adj.) constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic; 'epic tradition' .
录入:丽贝卡--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Narrated in a grand style; pertaining to or designating a kind of narrative poem, usually called an heroic poem, in which real or fictitious events, usually the achievements of some hero, are narrated in an elevated style.
(n.) An epic or heroic poem. See Epic, a.
杰西编辑
同义词及近义词:
a. Narrative.
n. Narrative, poem, epic poem, heroic poem.
整理:凯蒂
解释:
adj. applied to a poem which recounts a great event in an elevated style: lofty: grand.—n. an epic or heroic poem: a story comparable to those in epic poems.—ns. Ep′icism; Ep′icist.—Epic dialect the Greek in which the books of Homer are written.
伊莎贝拉录入
例句:
- Moreover he outlined and partly drafted an epic poem on the deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- A passion, which is disagreeable in real life, may afford the highest entertainment in a tragedy, or epic poem. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- That was an epic struggle, well worth the recording. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- Epic poem--ten thousand lines-- revolution of July--composed it on the spot--Mars by day, Apollo by night--bang the field-piece, twang the lyre. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Milton in his day doubted whether an epic poem was any longer possible. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- What we need to know about the Christian epic is the effect it had on men--true or false, they have believed in it for nineteen centuries. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Imitation, then, is devoid of knowledge, being only a kind of play or sport, and the tragic and epic poets are imitators in the highest degree. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- These sagas, epics, and vedas do supply, in addition to arch?ology and philology, a third source of information about those vanished times. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- They have consequently no epics. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- As Greece had her epics and so forth, the Romans felt that they too must have their epics. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The main Greek epics were reduced to writing, and the text of the chief ones put in its present order in the time of the tyrant Peisistratus (_i. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Every Aryan people had its long poetical records thus handed down, its sagas (Teutonic), its epics (Greek), its vedas (Old Sanscrit). 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- But let us return now to the history preserved for us in the Aryan epics. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
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