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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 史诗 one of the great Hindu epics 伟大的印度教史诗之一 the creative genius of Greek epic 富有创造力的希腊史诗天才
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a long film or book that contains a lot of action, usually about a historical subject 史诗般的电影（或书） - [countable] (sometimes humorous)
a long and difficult job or activity that you think people should admire 壮举；惊人之举
Word Originlate 16th cent. (as an adjective): via Latin from Greek epikos, from epos ‘word, song’, related to eipein ‘say’.