音标：['epik] ；柯林斯词典等级：2 级；

n. 史诗, 叙事诗
a. 史诗的, 叙事诗的

s. very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale)
a. constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic

词型变化：名词复数形式 : epics
考试类型：[托福/GRE]

词性分布：

形容词55%

名词45%

epic的用法和样例：

例句

用作名词(n.)

That movie was an epic about the Roman Empire.那电影是一部有关罗马帝国的史诗般的作品。
The Odyssey is an epic of ancient Greece.《奥德塞》是古希腊的一首史诗。
It is still the beginning of the home epic.它依然是一篇家庭叙事诗的开端。

用作形容词(adj.)

It is perhaps the best of epic fantasies.这也许是史诗奇幻小说中最好的。
Scott described the making of an epic film.斯科特介绍了这一史诗般影片的制作过程。
It is still the beginning of the home epic.它依然是一篇家庭叙事诗的开端。
These epic processes melted and reprocessed vast amounts of rock and concentrated chemical elements in new ways.在这个宏大的过程中，岩石被融化，再生，以新方式聚集化学元素。

常见句型

用作形容词(adj.)

用作定语～+ n.

The museum houses Tolstoy's epic work War and Peace .博物馆藏有托尔斯泰的长篇巨著《战争与和平》。
To celebrate the victory, a banquet of epic proportions was held.为了庆祝胜利举行了盛大的宴会。

词汇搭配

epic process外延钝化集成电路工艺...

经典引文

A survivor of what must have been an epic sea battle.
出自：N. Monsarrat
He was..as much a hero and a personage of that epic era as Eisenhower.
出自：D. Halberstam

【近义词】

heroic英雄的
grand重大的
larger-than-life有英雄(或传奇)色彩的...
classic杰作
blockbuster轰动
costume drama古装剧
period piece古式器物,古式家具...
extravaganza豪华的演出
marathon马拉松
impressive给人深刻印象的...
ambitious有雄心的
epical叙事诗的
epos初期口传的叙事诗...
Homeric荷马的
colossal 巨大的
huge巨大的
vast巨大的
rhetorical修辞的
sublime高尚的
legendary传说的
fabulous极好的
majestic宏伟的
epopee叙事诗
chronicle年代记
saga世家
romance浪漫史
tale故事
story故事
heroic poem史诗

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