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Lcchang Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

In an epic

... Brendan Fraser returns as explorer Rick O'Connell to combat the resurrected Han Emperor (Jet Li) in an Epic that races from the catacombs of ancient China high into the Frigid Himalayas...

I know epic is like a poem, but I don't know what it means in this sentence. Can anyone help? Thanks.
  

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The dictionary is for native speakers. For person like me to use it, I have to spend more time looking up meanings for other words. Simply put, I just want to know what "in the epic" means here to get the whole idea of this sentence.
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I will have to use the same words the dictionary did to define "epic". How about "grand heroic story"?
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So the clause "that races from the catacombs of ancient..." is the one to modify the Emperor (Jet Li), not the epic. I was wondering why an epic can race. This is what makes me confused. Thanks.
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No, they meant that the epic races. That is advertising. They try to sound exciting. You can say that a story moves along as the plot unfolds. That is how the epic can race.
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