| 单词 | Augean stables |
| 例句 | The fifth labor was to clean the Augean stables in a single day. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z She made everyone else look overdone and overdressed, washing the Augean stables of Cannes clean. 15 Fashion Triumphs From Cannes Over the Decades 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z He likened the Internet to the Augean stables in Greek mythology, which needed Hercules to divert two rivers to wash away decades of manure. British watchdog demands more power over crypto promotions 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z No one’s ever actually done that — not on such a scale with three stars all volunteering to clean the Augean stables. Perspective | The Nationals are breaking the rules and just might steal the series from the Dodgers 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z Instead, it is going to take an effort akin to Hercules cleaning out the Augean stables to repair, rebuild and strengthen America. What is America going to do about its Trump problem in 2019? | Carol Anderson 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Until these Augean stables are cleared out, no amount of dedicated new tax revenue will be sufficient; once they are, very little new tax revenue will be necessary. The Case for the Subway 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z He did not clean the Augean stables of Washington, and suffered dearly for it. With Barack Obama’s exit the US is losing a saint. But a sinner may make a better president | Simon Jenkins 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Trump’s victory was the basis for Russia’s “moderate optimism”; now both sides could discuss how “to clear out the Augean stables in our bilateral relations.” Trump, Putin, and the Big Hack 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Others maintained that, after cleansing the Augean stables and then defeating the local king in battle, the hero Heracles inaugurated the early Games in Zeus’ honor. The Strange Rites of the Ancient Olympics 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z It is a metaphor he would never use, nor one he is likely to be familiar with, but he was the one man from outside the establishment who could clean the Augean stables of Washington. Inside the topsy-turvy world of Trump: what I learned on the campaign trail 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z Cleaning Nigeria's equivalent of the fantastically filthy Augean stables of Greek myth is certainly not a one-year job. Buhari’s first year: Five ways Nigeria has changed - BBC News 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Ridding Greece of its endemic political patronage and corruption will take a "Herculean effort," similar to cleaning the "Augean stables." Greece's debt crisis explained, in mythological terms 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Six years would provide a more ample window for Congress to undertake the Herculean task of cleaning out the Augean stables of the federal tax code … and to get it enacted. The Hidden Key 2014 Election: Kevin Brady Jolts Paul Ryan 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z The fabulous filth of the Augean stables, and the radical methods employed for their cleansing, have given rise to proverbial expressions still in current use. Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z But he was not only a powerful believer in his own soul, but was the believing Hercules who went forth in the name of divine law to cleanse the Augean stables of the world.... Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z It was the river Alpheus that Hercules turned through the Augean stables. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z For years the evil was felt and complained of, but no effort was made to remedy it, or to cleanse these worse than Augean stables. Auriol or, The Elixir of Life 2011-06-24T02:00:23.867Z “However, the quandary of nuclear Augean stables would stump even Hercules.” Green: Radiation: A Literary Analysis 2011-04-20T11:41:21Z So what did Hercules do but lead the courses of two streams, the Alpheus and the Peneus, right through the Augean stables cleansing them thoroughly. Wonder Stories The Best Myths for Boys and Girls 2011-03-31T02:00:19.150Z Jackson’s journey from Tennessee was well-chronicled, as a westerner came in to clean the Augean stables of Washington. Disunion: Lincoln Moves 2011-02-10T21:37:45Z Take her he would have done from the arms of Satanus himself, but to disentangle himself from all his difficulties was a task that beat the Augean stables hollow. Beatrice Boville and Other Stories The descent of Hercules to Hades seems to me a feat of mere insignificance compared with the cleaning out of the Augean stables, if, as I presume, the inmates were not previously removed. Tales from "Blackwood," Volume 2 Hercules, in his capacity of an amateur scavenger, once attempted the cleaning of the Augean stables, or some such trifle, and his success was trumpeted throughout the neighborhood as a triumph of ingenuity and perseverance. The Witches of New York Augean stables are not to be cleansed with a spray of rose-water. Robert Burns Famous Scots Series She seemed prepared to clean Augean stables, and there was something judicial in her aspect too, but she did not look at Olive. Olive in Italy We can clean these Augean stables by one concentrated effort, even as England cleaned her corrupt borough elections of a century and a half ago. A Man of Two Countries But the task is vast, it is herculean, like unto the cleaning of the Augean stables. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin However, attention once a year is better than none at all, as said of the Augean stables. Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis The river, turned into the foul Augean stables of the heart, will sweep out all the filth and leave everything clean. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John He has done much to cleanse the Augean stables of the English theatre. Personality in Literature One would suppose that the vessel was as dirty as those Augean stables that fellow Hercules had to clean, by all the water you use.” The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea Yes; Hercules himself could not have kept that quarter clean; the Augean stables were nothing to it. For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War To him Hercules lived yesterday, and, confusing hearsay with memory, he was almost ready to swear that he was present and used a shovel when the strong man cleaned the Augean stables. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters I should have valued myself more on clearing the library than on cleansing the Augean stables. Dialogues of the Dead Love, that marvellous panacea, had driven out the false, the impure visions of his heart, as surely and as thoroughly as ever Hercules cleansed the Augean stables. Adrien Leroy And I shall have the Augean stables of these corrupt offices swept of their filth. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One Englishman Their ignominy served America; it roused the country to clean its Augean stables. Joy in the Morning Catharine found corruption and bribery everywhere, and she engaged in the work of reform with the energies of Hercules in cleansing the Augean stables. The Empire of Russia Stymphalean buzzards ravage round our fields; The Augean stables reeking stench the land; The hundred-headed monster Cerberus, That throttled Greece and ravaged hapless France, Hath broke from hell and howls for human blood. The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems Eurystheus set Hercules the task of cleaning out these Augean stables in a single day! Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) At first I was not allowed to go out of their dirty tents or still filthier winter turf-caves, than which the Augean stables were a cleaner place of abode. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 The departing Germans had left them in very bad shape, and Hercules would have felt that cleaning the Augean stables was a light task in comparison. War in the Garden of Eden It is expected, he added, that "he will cleanse the Augean stables, and I feel pretty confident that he will not disappoint the popular expectation in this particular." The Reign of Andrew Jackson Clean the Augean stables if thou can'st; But hurl the hundred-headed monster down Headlong to Hades: chain him; make thee sure He shall not burst the bonds of hell again. The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems Allow us to clean our Augean stables without more than a formal opposition from the State. Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts And now," said General Belmont, "while we are cleansing the Augean stables, we may as well remove the cause as the effect. The Marrow of Tradition Hercules, not of Herculaneum, viewed the Augean stables he may have thought that he had a considerable job on hand, but he tackled it with a man's strength and brain. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 I strove manfully to make the foul thing respectable, but the Augean stables proved too much for my pitchfork. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 After her first disappointment in being kept at home, she set about her task of cleaning the Snawdor flat with the ardor of a young Hercules attacking the Augean stables. Calvary Alley Do not PUNCHINELLO'S subjects all know that whisk brooms sweep clean, and that no broom swept cleaner the Augean stables of Federal plunderers than that wretched Old BAILEY'S whisky broom? Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 03, April 16, 1870 The true way to cleanse the Augean stables, as the old myth has it, was to turn the river into them. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV Mr. Oldeschole found that he could not stand at all before this young Hercules, seeing that his special stall was considered to be the foulest in the whole range of the Augean stables. The Three Clerks Whoever tries to forestall or appease him might better be at work in Augean stables; because, after all, we must admit that the facts of life are on his side. Bits about Home Matters There are Augean stables enough and to spare for us to clean. Freedom's Battle Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation It was a labor of Hercules, a cleansing of Augean stables; but the scared savages were ready to make any promise that might stay the pestilence. The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century But his labours in the Augean stables of Kay's were by no means over. The Head of Kay's Probably Hercules thought the Augean stables were spotless and fragrant when he had finished with them. Flowing Gold Then in the autumn of that year, 1858, I was asked to go to the West Indies, and cleanse the Augean stables of our Post Office system there. Autobiography of Anthony Trollope In his capacity of annotator he would have plunged headlong into the Augean stables, had there been any likelihood of extracting therefrom the germs of a luminous footnote. South Wind Their subjects are the twelve labors of Heracles, beginning with the slaying of the Nemean lion and ending with the cleansing of the Augean stables. A History of Greek Art The chief commissioner, Colonel Warren, R.A., was an officer of great energy and ability, and he had grappled vigorously with every difficulty and cleansed the Augean stables thoroughly. Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 This slight outline of the situation will exhibit the difficulties of the Khedive in his thankless and Herculean task of cleansing the Augean stables. Ismailia It needs the wisdom of Solon to legislate for this land, and a Hercules to cleanse its Augean stables of official corruption. The Golden Dog Yet we are informed by him that in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Yokohama, the Augean stables of American vice are located. Anarchism and Other Essays Who has not watched at the commencement of a Ministry some Secretary, some Lord, or some Commissioner, who intends by fresh Herculean labours to cleanse the Augean stables just committed to his care? The Prime Minister As well might Hercules have attempted to tidy up the Augean stables with a squirt. Diary of a Pilgrimage It is the Augean stables through which some American Hercules must turn a purifying river before the American people can justly boast either of their capital or of their government. North America — Volume 2 |
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