喜樂美語

One way to picture epic: a story so long and so full of heroes, journeys and battles that it needs a whole book or a three-hour film to hold it. Once that scale is in the word, English lends it to anything that feels the same size — a long hard journey, and in casual talk, anything wonderfully big.

可以想成 epic 是一個又長又大的故事：英雄、遠行、戰役，多到要一整本書或三小時的電影才裝得下。這份「規模」一旦進了這個字，英文就把它借給任何感覺一樣大的東西——一段漫長艱辛的旅程，以及在口語裡，任何大得過癮的事物。

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同家族的字

  • 形容詞epical
  • 副詞epically

複數 epics

原始詞典資料14 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Epicadj

  • 1

    Pertaining to a dialect characteristic of epic poems, especially Epic Greek.

    • Every δῆμος [dêmos] had one or more towns (πόλεις [poleis]), and accordingly for the complete description of the land, usual in the Epic phraseology, both expressions are commonly united […]
    • The first syllable is lengthened, as the antistrophic line […] shows, an Epic scansion in accordance with the Epic phrase […]

epicnoun詞源 1/ˈɛp.ɪk/

  • 1

    An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity, demigod (heroic epic), other legend or traditional hero.

    • The Icelandic epic took all night to recite.
  • 2

    A series of events considered appropriate to an epic; any work of literature, film, etc. having heroic deeds and adventures as its subject matter.

    • The book was an epic in four volumes.
    • These epics nearly always had runaway trains, nincompoops floundering with the controls and a collapsed bridge just ahead!
  • 3

    computingengineeringmathematicsA large or extended user story.

    • Epics are shown in a separate list from user stories. This is because it is the user stories that are developed, not epics. Epics are decomposed into child user stories.

epicadj詞源 1/ˈɛp.ɪk/

  • 1

    Of or relating to an epic.

    • Beowulf is an epic poem.
    • The main theme of epic poetry is, of course, the hero, his life, his greatness of character, his deeds and his death.
  • 2

    Momentously heroic; grand in scale or character.

    • The epic defense was rewarded with the highest military decorations
    • China's epic traffic jam "vanished" [title of article]
  • 3

    Extending beyond the usual or ordinary.

    • The after-prom party was truly epic.
    • You made an epic mistake.

epicadj詞源 2/ˈɛp.ɪk/

  • 1

    category-theorycomputingengineeringThat is an epimorphism.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

  • epitaxial integrated circuit
  • East Plano Islamic Center

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