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Au·ge·an
/ɔˈʤiən/
(a.)Elis 王
Augeas
的,極髒的
From:
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Au·ge·an
a.
1.
Class. Myth.
Of
or
pertaining
to
Augeus
,
king
of
Elis
,
whose
stable
contained
3000
oxen
,
and
had
not
been
cleaned
for
30
years
.
Hercules
cleansed
it
in
a
single
day
.
2.
Hence
:
Exceedingly
filthy
or
corrupt
.
Augean stable
(
Fig
.),
an
accumulation
of
corruption
or
filth
almost
beyond
the
power
of
man
to
remedy
.
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From:
WordNet (r) 2.0
Augean
adj
:
extremely
dirty
and
corrupt
; "
every
government
ought
to
attend
to
cleaning
its
own
Augean
stables
"
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