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a long poem about the actions of great men and women or about a nation’s history; this style of poetry 史詩 one of the great Hindu epics 偉大的印度教史詩之一 the creative genius of Greek epic 富有創造力的希臘史詩天才
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a long film or book that contains a lot of action, usually about a historical subject 史詩般的電影（或書） - [countable] (sometimes humorous)
a long and difficult job or activity that you think people should admire 壯舉；驚人之舉
Word Originlate 16th cent. (as an adjective): via Latin from Greek epikos, from epos ‘word, song’, related to eipein ‘say’.