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单词 Augean
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Definition of Augean in English:

Augean

adjective ɔːˈdʒiːənɔˈdʒiən
  • 1Relating to Augeas.

    (与)奥吉厄斯(有关)的

    the Augean stables

    奥吉厄斯的牛舍。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • When he had come back from cleansing the Augean stables, he would be reminded that he hadn't seized the girdle of the Queen of the Amazons, or brought the golden apples from the Garden of the Hesperides, or brought up Cerberus from Hades.
    • This is my modern day version of the Augean stables task.
    • A modern-day equivalent of cleaning the Augean stables.
    • One can't help thinking of Hercules cleaning up the Augean stables.
    • Hercules had avoided cleaning the Augean stables by diverting the course of two rivers through the building.
    • Hugh performs a Herculean task visiting the Augean stables of Durbin's mind.
    • Cleaning out the Augean stables was one of the labours of Hercules and the incoming Greek government faces similar challenges.
    1. 1.1 (of a task or problem) requiring so much effort to complete or solve as to seem impossible.
      (任务,问题)极难的;难以完成的
      there are Augean amounts of debris to clear

      有不计其数的垃圾要清理。

Rhymes

Actaeon, Aegean, aeon (US eon), Behan, Cadmean, Caribbean, Carolean, Chaldean, Cyclopean, empyrean, epicurean, European, Fijian, Galilean, Hasmonean, Hebridean, Herculean, Ian, Jacobean, Kampuchean, Laodicean, lien, Linnaean (US Linnean), Maccabean, Mandaean (US Mandean), Medicean, monogenean, Nabataean (US Nabatean), Orphean, paean, paeon, pean, peon, Periclean, piscean, plebeian, Pyrenean, Pythagorean, Sabaean, Sadducean, Sisyphean, skean, Tanzanian, Tennesseean, Terpsichorean, theodicean, Tyrolean

Definition of Augean in US English:

Augean

adjectiveôˈjēənɔˈdʒiən
  • 1Relating to Augeas.

    (与)奥吉厄斯(有关)的

    the Augean stables

    奥吉厄斯的牛舍。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Hugh performs a Herculean task visiting the Augean stables of Durbin's mind.
    • A modern-day equivalent of cleaning the Augean stables.
    • One can't help thinking of Hercules cleaning up the Augean stables.
    • Cleaning out the Augean stables was one of the labours of Hercules and the incoming Greek government faces similar challenges.
    • When he had come back from cleansing the Augean stables, he would be reminded that he hadn't seized the girdle of the Queen of the Amazons, or brought the golden apples from the Garden of the Hesperides, or brought up Cerberus from Hades.
    • Hercules had avoided cleaning the Augean stables by diverting the course of two rivers through the building.
    • This is my modern day version of the Augean stables task.
    1. 1.1 (of a task or problem) requiring so much effort to complete or solve as to seem impossible.
      (任务,问题)极难的;难以完成的
      Augean amounts of debris to clear

      有不计其数的垃圾要清理。

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