用作定语
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 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。

epic还可用作名词,作“史诗,叙事诗”解。例如:
Homer's Iliad and Milton's Paradise Lost are famous epics.荷马的《伊利亚特》和弥尔顿的《失乐园》是著名的史诗。