1. The film is long and dramatic but does not quite earn the epithet 'epic'.
这部影片篇幅长,戏剧性强,不过还不能誉为“史诗”。
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2. They get caught in trees (hence the epithet "Witches' Knickers"), take hundreds of years to decompose and push up demand for oil, used to make plastics.