真的出自神話
這一支照字面走：被形容的東西本來就住在故事架上。
adjective · B2
Belonging to myths — the very old stories a people tell about gods, heroes and monsters. A mythic creature, place or hero lives in those stories rather than in the real world.
神話的
核心畫面
Picture the shelf where a culture keeps its oldest stories — gods, heroes, monsters, things too big to have happened on a normal afternoon. Mythic points at that shelf. Sometimes it points literally, at what really lives there; sometimes it lifts something real onto the shelf to say how big it has become.
「mythic」的畫面可以想成一個放老故事的架子。上面擺的是神、英雄、怪物。全部都大到不像發生在平常的某個下午。這個…更多收起
「mythic」的畫面可以想成一個放老故事的架子。上面擺的是神、英雄、怪物。全部都大到不像發生在平常的某個下午。這個字就是指著那個架子。有時候是照字面指，說某樣東西本來就住在上面。有時候是把真實的人事物搬上去，藉此說它有多大。From the word’s history
Wiktionary dates it to the 1660s, from Latin mȳthicus or Ancient Greek muthikós, and analyses it as myth + -ic — literally 'of myth'.
來源資料把它追到一六六○年代，來自拉丁文 mȳthicus 或古希臘文 μυθικός，結構上等於 myth 加 -ic。字面意思就是「屬於神話的」。這正是它第一個、也最字面的用法。
Wiktionary entry for mythic (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1215101093): "1660s; from Latin mȳthicus or Ancient Greek μυθικός (muthikós); equivalent to myth + -ic."
Two branches
大到像出自神話
這一支不是把東西放回神話，而是把神話的尺寸借出來。畫面可以想成一個故事被一再轉述，越講越大，最後被抬上了那個架子。這是意思上的延伸，不代表歷史上一定這樣走。
adjective · C1
So great, so famous or so admired that people talk about it the way they talk about a hero in an old story.
傳奇般的