epic的意思|epic的解释-里氏词典

epic ['epik]

n. 史诗, 叙事诗

a. 史诗的, 叙事诗的

Have you read another epic about the Roman Empire?
你读过另一部关于罗马帝国的史诗吗？
Homer's Iliad is a famous epic.
荷马的 “伊利亚特” 是著名的史诗。
The overall design of an epic poem.
一首史诗的总体方案

epic

[ noun ]

a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds

<noun.communication>

[ adj ]

constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic

<adj.pert>

epic tradition

very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale)

<adj.all>

an epic voyage

of heroic proportions

heroic sculpture

Epic \Ep"ic\, a. [L. epicus, Gr. ?, from ? a word, speech, tale,
song; akin to L. vox voice: cf. F. ['e]pique. See {Voice}.]
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.

The epic poem treats of one great, complex action, in a
grand style and with fullness of detail. --T. Arnold.

Epic \Ep"ic\, n.
An epic or heroic poem. See {Epic}, a.

Even fans of Mr. Wilson's more familiar semi-verbal epic mode will not find what they're expecting.
It's not the first time the characters from "Gone With The Wind" have appeared outside of the printed page or silver screen, and most U.S. fans of the Old South epic probably will never see a bottle of "Gone With The Wind" wine.
Their rivalry has grown to epic proportions throughout the state.
"It's something that you can't help feeling bitter or upset about," said Helen Human, the Dallas actress who portrayed the bossy and buxom "Peach." The epic depicted a cattle drive from dusty Lonesome Dove, Texas, to Montana.
Somehow, though, the very epic quality of the production underscores the problems of disparity of scale in the play's main notion.
Memorialized as "the day the music died" in Don McLean's 1972 epic "American Pie," the plane crash was the first great rock tragedy.
The damage will undoubtedly prove to be one of the epic human and economic disasters of the decade in this country.
A new production of Wagner's epic "Ring" cycle under East German director Harry Kupfer and celebrated Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim, will be the centerpiece of Bayreuth's Richard Wagner Festival, which opens on July 26.
CBS estimated, based on figures from the A.C. Nielsen Co., that about 40 million viewers tuned in each night of the four-night Western epic that revived network television, at least for the week.
It only lasts an hour, but into that time an epic in miniature is compressed. The opera takes place way back in Czech mythological history.
"This is an epic day," said Hugh M. Ray, an attorney for Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co., a major lender to the Hunt companies.
Its autograph is lost; until the Parma revival of 1968, Stiffelio was thought of as a marginal episode in the long epic of Verdi's compositional career. Since then, fringe revivals and a good Philips recording have rectified the impression.
This is continuing with He Who Saw Everything, based on the ancient epic of Gilgamesh and thought to be the world's oldest play.
This is one of the strongest emotions of my life, and I can't hide it," said Bernardo Bertolucci, who directed the epic about China's boy ruler Pu Yi.
Vardon's sandtrapped drive there led to a bogey that iced Ouimet's epic triumph, and Cupit lost his lead with a double-bogey six on 17 a half-century later.
From the style of the perfume bottle, the execution can be dated to about 725-700 BC. This was the period, some five centuries after the probable date of the Trojan war, when Homer's epic poems were written down.
I loved the idea of putting comedy in a film of epic proportions.
Both miniseries were based on Herman Wouk's epic novels. "The Winds of War" followed Victor "Pug" Henry and his family through the events leading up to World War II. "War and Remembrance" takes them through the war.
The Heritage Plaza office building, an epic symbol of the depths of the Houston real-estate bust, was sold to an investment partnership for $110 million.
The MGM/UA stable has turned out the successful film "Moonstruck" and the "thirtysomething" TV series, for example, and will release a new George Lucas epic, "Willow," May 25.
I haven't the money, the connections, or the hunger. But I still love the salmon, and the thought that this wonderful creature - with its extraordinary, epic life cycle - might one day be lost to our rivers is odious.
They fought at El-Alamein on Egypt's northern coast in an epic clash of tanks that stopped Germany's Desert Fox and gave the allies a crucial victory in World War II.
The next year he piloted Affirmed to the Triple Crown in epic duels with Alydar.
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts Inc. is in the final stages of its record $24.53 billion acquisition of RJR Nabisco Inc., having completed an epic tender offer for the food and tobacco giant.
Now, Der Ring des Nibelungen is a heady brew of despairing idealism and political prophecy, Jungian mythology before its time and importunate Affekt, fake-primeval epic and ripe 19th-century melodrama.
The speed of the decline on Friday the 13th spooked traders who were reminded of the epic stock panic nearly two years ago to the day.
Barely a year after the $6.2 billion leveraged buyout of Beatrice Cos. was completed in April 1986, the transaction is showing the sort of epic success that typifies most leveraged buyouts so far.
Immortalized as "the day the music died" in Don McLean's 1972 epic pop song, "American Pie," the plane crash was the first great rock tragedy.
Hardline leader Nicolae Ceausescu of Romania is the only East bloc leader to reject the epic transformations.
He is a noble failure, a man who chooses to regard his miserable life as an epic, in which he plays the Marshalsea's monarch and his children are the royal family.

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