英和和英

固有名詞

War and Peace

1. (often attributive) A text or utterance of remarkable length or complexity.
   • 1998, Bill Camarda, Upgrading & Fixing Networks for Dummies, IDG Books Worldwide:

     You get an exhaustive, War and Peace-style description of your system.

   • 2005, Lauren Mechling, ‎Laura Moser, The Rise and Fall of a 10th Grade Social Climber, Random House Australia:

     She proceeded to launch into this War and Peace–length speech about honesty and community and respect and all those other topics that seriously get on my nerves.

   • 2012, J. M. Barry, ‎L. C. Coats, Selling in Today's Economy: Applying Laws of Physics and Performance Art to Gain the Cutting Edge, iUniverse:

     I will refer to this as the War and Peace e-mail—a painfully long e-mail that many will not read. You remember Tolstoy's War and Peace, a very, very long and thick book. The consumer response to the initial e-mail was less than 1 percent.