Epic
['epɪk] or ['ɛpɪk]
解釋/意思:
(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' .
錄入:丽贝卡--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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.
杰西編輯
同義詞及近義詞:
a. Narrative.
n. Narrative, poem, epic poem, heroic poem.
整理:凯蒂
解釋/意思:
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.
伊莎贝拉錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- Moreover he outlined and partly drafted an epic poem on the deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- A passion, which is disagreeable in real life, may afford the highest entertainment in a tragedy, or epic poem. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- That was an epic struggle, well worth the recording. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Milton in his day doubted whether an epic poem was any longer possible. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- 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. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- 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. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- 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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They have consequently no epics. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- As Greece had her epics and so forth, the Romans felt that they too must have their epics. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- 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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Every Aryan people had its long poetical records thus handed down, its sagas (Teutonic), its epics (Greek), its vedas (Old Sanscrit). 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But let us return now to the history preserved for us in the Aryan epics. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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