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An epic struggle gt;looms.
一场史诗般宏大的战斗即将打响。
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Unlike Hollywood blockbusters, there were no special effects, speeding cars or epic battle scenes.
不同于好莱坞大片,这部电影里没有特效,亦没有飞驰的汽车或史诗般的战争场面。
——《纽约时报》
[名词] 史诗
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这是老牌的好莱坞史诗电影之一,演员阵容达到数千人。今天它可以用来教育我们直面种族灭绝和社会不公的责任。
It's one of those old Hollywood epics with a cast of thousands. It can educate us about our responsibilities to confront genocide and social injustice today.
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这个站不住脚的计划应该被扼杀在摇篮之中。现在使野生动物得到保护的任务变得漫长而艰巨。
The feeble plan should have been strangled at birth. Now the task of getting wild animals protected becomes an epic. -
他们在中心球场历时四个小时的比赛是一个壮举。我们一定不能小瞧了他们所取得的杰出成就。
Their four-hour match on Centre Court was an epic. We mustn'tbelittle their outstanding achievement.
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那些喜欢冒险的年轻人期待着沿哥伦布的壮丽航程进行一次航行。
Those young men who like to flirt with danger are hoping to retrace the epic voyage of Christopher Columbus. -
证券投机的失败使她一下子破了产。她不得不经历漫长而艰难的旅程来重获财富。
Her failure in stock speculation precipitated her ruin. She had to go on an epic journey to restore her fortune.
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你给新娘新郎的祝酒词实在是太棒了。
Your toast to the bride and groom was epic. -
通货膨胀问题已经到了极其严重的地步。现在我们需要一个更加灵活的货币政策。
The problem of inflation has reached epic proportions. Now we need a more supple monetary policy.
To make the poem of the human conscience, were it only with reference to a single man, were it only in connection with the basest of men, would be to blend all epics into one superior and definitive epic.
赞美人心,纵使只涉及一个人,只涉及人群中最微贱的一个,也得熔冶一切歌颂英雄的诗文于一炉,赋成一首优越成熟的英雄颂。
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saga: a long story of heroic achievement, especially a medieval prose narrative in Old Norse or Old Icelandic -
legend: a traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but unauthenticated -
romance: a genre of fiction dealing with love in an idealized way