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。

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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.

过去两年间，奥巴马四处夸夸而谈，都说要清扫华盛顿这个”奥吉亚斯牛圈”2，封死权钱间的”旋转门”，提高精神文明水平。

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The upshot is that, seven years after the cleansing of the Augean stables supposedly started, Italy looks remarkably unchanged.

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The current government is only the latest whose stated determination to sluice down the Augean stables of Wandsworth, Strangeways and Parkhurst has resulted in an ineffectual piddle.

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We hope, though, that when the cardinals gather to pick Benedict's successor, they consider someone able and willing to clean out the Augean Stables at the Vatican itself.

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