英语词汇“augean stable”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. Esp. in Augean stable(s). Of, relating to, or designating the stables of Augeas, legendary king of Elis, notorious for their filthy condition, the cleansing of which was one of the twelve labours of Hercules (see labour of Hercules n. at labour n. Phrases 3). Used allusively to denote any extremely dirty place, or (figurative) a place or institution characterized by great moral corruption or depravity.

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty place > [noun]

fenc888

longayne1340

sloven's inn?1518

slut's corner1570

sink1590

Augean stable1596

spittle1624

spital1771

expectoratory1836

mill-tail1854

stable1903

pisshole1928

society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > [noun] > immoral conduct or habits > a vice or bad habit > a depraved act or practice

Augean stable1596

depravity1641

1596 C. Fitzgeffry Sir Francis Drake sig. D6^v Making th' Augæan Oxe-stall shine as sunne.

1610 Bp. J. Hall Common Apol. against Brownists 128 If your Magistrates hauing once given their names to the Church, indevour not to purge this Augean stable; how can you preferre their Communion to ours?

a1689 W. Cleland Coll. Poems (1697) 102 You rub alse much of the Blutter Of the Augeian stall and gutter, On your own Cheeks as you do sting.

1709 S. Barklay in W. Coward Licentia Poetica Discuss'd sig. C2^v By the Power of your Herculean Pen Augean Holds were purg'd and render'd clean.

1775 P. Schuyler in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) I. 4 I shall have an Augean stable to clean there.

1825 Lancet 23 July 95/2 This Hospital is an ‘Augean stable’.

1866 Punch 13 Oct. 150/1 Good Work they do who usher us through John Bull's Augean stable.

1940 Life 22 Apr. 93/1 To the nation's out-of-town population which fears the metropolis as a vice den, he symbolizes not New York but a sort of Michigan Hercules who tidied up its Augean stable.

2009 Times (Nexis) 16 Dec. 29 Hopefully the Augean stables can be cleansed by public servants with more courage than those who prospered under Tony Blair.

单词	augean stable
释义	> as lemmas Augean stable(s) a. Esp. in Augean stable(s). Of, relating to, or designating the stables of Augeas, legendary king of Elis, notorious for their filthy condition, the cleansing of which was one of the twelve labours of Hercules (see labour of Hercules n. at labour n. Phrases 3). Used allusively to denote any extremely dirty place, or (figurative) a place or institution characterized by great moral corruption or depravity. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty place > [noun] fenc888 longayne1340 sloven's inn?1518 slut's corner1570 sink1590 Augean stable1596 spittle1624 spital1771 expectoratory1836 mill-tail1854 stable1903 pisshole1928 society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > [noun] > immoral conduct or habits > a vice or bad habit > a depraved act or practice Augean stable1596 depravity1641 1596 C. Fitzgeffry Sir Francis Drake sig. D6^v Making th' Augæan Oxe-stall shine as sunne. 1610 Bp. J. Hall Common Apol. against Brownists 128 If your Magistrates hauing once given their names to the Church, indevour not to purge this Augean stable; how can you preferre their Communion to ours? a1689 W. Cleland Coll. Poems (1697) 102 You rub alse much of the Blutter Of the Augeian stall and gutter, On your own Cheeks as you do sting. 1709 S. Barklay in W. Coward Licentia Poetica Discuss'd sig. C2^v By the Power of your Herculean Pen Augean Holds were purg'd and render'd clean. 1775 P. Schuyler in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) I. 4 I shall have an Augean stable to clean there. 1825 Lancet 23 July 95/2 This Hospital is an ‘Augean stable’. 1866 Punch 13 Oct. 150/1 Good Work they do who usher us through John Bull's Augean stable. 1940 Life 22 Apr. 93/1 To the nation's out-of-town population which fears the metropolis as a vice den, he symbolizes not New York but a sort of Michigan Hercules who tidied up its Augean stable. 2009 Times (Nexis) 16 Dec. 29 Hopefully the Augean stables can be cleansed by public servants with more courage than those who prospered under Tony Blair. extracted from Augeanadj. < as lemmas
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