(Greek mythology) the extremely dirty stables that were finally cleaned by Hercules who diverted two rivers through them
Augean stables 例句
英汉例句
How to clean the Augean stables of this city remains a critical problem.
如何扫除这个城市的积弊仍然是个紧要问题。
Throughout two years of high-flown speechifying he promised to clean the Augean stables of Washington, close the revolving door between power and money and raise ethical standards.
That may be true, but the search giant clearly feels the need to clean house now rather than risk seeing more of its results pages turned into Augean stables of spam.