用法学习: 1. black mark 污点 informal the fact of people noticing and remembering something that you have done wrong or failed to do. A black mark against someone is something bad that they have done or a bad quality that they have which affects the way people think about them. There was one black mark against him. If I'm late for work again, it will be another black mark against me. Rhys Walkley was not my best appointment. Only after his appointment did I discover he was not a swimming coach, but an official [timekeeper/judge]. Black mark for me for not asking the right questions. However, he was willing to assist the Sportsmaster with team management and proved efficient at that. Here was Walkley, for what can only have been his own personal gratification 私欲, seeking topless photos of a pubescent student, and not just any pubescent student, but Ian.
How a sister's love unraveled the tragic death of Olympic hopeful Ian Walker and unmasked the teacher who abused him: Like a cyclone on legs 像一股旋风, the stooped midfielder skittles his way through one, two, three, four, five Galen College opponents, tapping the ball along in front of him, making the waterlogged surface of VFL Park look like a bowling green. Peter McKenna, the Collingwood legend, watches the cyclone on legs crashing through and almost purrs. It leads to a goal for Haileybury College, a Melbourne private school. Walker, a wiry(wiry [ˈwaɪə.ri] 精瘦的 (sinewy 精瘦的, 精壮的, 瘦而结实的 [ˈsɪnjui]) I. (of people and animals) thin but strong, and often able to bend easily: His body is wiry and athletic. He has a runner's wiry frame. He was a wiry man 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighing 145 pounds. The mystery man has a wiry frame, with barely an ounce of fat on him and for some reason had a business tie on. Alec, is six foot two, pale skinned, carved out of granite and built like a Nordic god. II. 钢丝一样的头发. 粗糙而硬的头发. Something such as hair or grass that is wiry is stiff and rough to touch. If hair or fur is wiry, it is stiff and not soft. Her wiry hair was pushed up on top of her head in an untidy bun. ), lean, slightly hunched ball of energy, trots back to the wing on the member's side of the ground. Later, McKenna's co-commentator Stephen Phillips says Walker is "one of the best players on the ground in my book". "Awww," he says. "That was good, strong, determined play by the Haileybury player Ian Walker." It is the Herald Shield; 210 schools across the state are slugging it out ( slug it out 拼个你死我活 If two people slug it out, they fight or argue violently until one of them wins. Watch out, there's two guys slugging it out in the back of the bar! I slugged it out with some guy last night and earned myself a black eye for my troubles. In such a big family, my siblings and I always have to slug it out for our parents' attention. ) across months of sudden-death games. This year, Haileybury will vanquish ( to defeat an enemy, opponent, or obstacle completely and thoroughly, often in a battle, war, or competition. It is a strong, literary term implying total subjugation or crushing victory, rather than a simple win. Napoleon was vanquished at the battle of Waterloo in 1815. The vanquished army surrendered their weapons. A happy ending is only possible because the hero has first vanquished the dragons. With knowledge and wisdom, evil could be vanquished on this earth. ) Billy Brownless's Assumption College on the way to the final and also win its historic first premiership in Melbourne's fiercely contested 竞争激烈的, 争夺的很激烈的 Associated Public Schools football competition, a tournament steeped in tradition and a breeding ground for future AFL stars. The Haileybury boys are the pride of their school. A few will end up on VFL and AFL playing lists and a couple will have half-decade professional careers. Ian Walker, despite his abundant gifts, will not be one of them. The final is an off 不在状态 night for Haileybury and they lose to Parade College. That night, Walker is not his usual self either. He dives under packs, ducks and weaves out of tackles, but every time he breaks free, his passes hit opponents' chests. For long spells, he languishes on the bench. When you watch Ian in these long-ago moments of his youth, you get glimpses of the reasons why people still think about him, still talk about him, still want to know exactly what happened. It is impossible to miss his warp speed, his hair-raising courage, his willingness to take the game on. But it is equally impossible, once you know how his life panned out, to miss the other story being told by Walker's body language: scattered, jittery, unsettled. That he is playing hurt. He is all bandages and frayed nerves. At this precise moment, Ian's sporting magic is deserting him, to be replaced by something nobody will want to remember. They'd also said Ian's sisters once doted on him so smotheringly, it was like he had three mothers. Rod and Ian had been close friends, both brilliant sportsmen. They were 1970s classmates at Beaumaris Primary in Melbourne's bayside south, now better known, via the damning findings of a government inquiry, as the scene of wholesale ( often disapproving (especially of something bad or too extreme) complete or affecting a lot of things, people, places, etc. involving everyone or everything; complete: What the system needs is wholesale reform. wholesale changes. wholesale destruction. ) child sexual abuse by four paedophile teachers. One day, leafing through 翻看 his childhood photo albums, Owen pointed to all his former school friends and footy teammates who were unravelling, addicted or dead. Ian? Dead. Ray got him too," was Rod's pained 痛苦万分的 assessment. In the 60s and 70s, Ray rampantly 肆虐的, 疯狂的, 肆无忌惮的 abused boys at four state schools and in the St Kilda Football Club's little league team, which he coached for 11 years. So, consider what follows less a companion piece 姐妹篇 to the tales of Rod and other famous victims of child sexual abuse, but the story of their ignored cousins of the 1970s and 80s. Of the hundreds more golden-hued ( something having a bright yellow, metallic, or yellowish-orange color that resembles gold. It is frequently used in literary contexts to describe a warm, shimmering appearance—such as in sunsets, light, or hair—and often symbolizes beauty, divinity, and prosperity. If so, or if you look at the star through binoculars, you might see that it has a familiar golden hue. ) men in the making, united in an irony: that the society which lauded them had unknowingly built them a pedestal from which it was difficult to notice their vulnerability and suffering. Like most of those men, Ian was not a public figure. His death occasioned no media coverage. He was what journalism once dismissively referred to as one of "the little people". Guilt struck me. I'd ruined her day. Her own plate, I learned, was full enough. She was dealing with a workplace injury whose legacy, then and now, affects every aspect of her life. And here I was, adding to those difficulties by raking up 勾起, 重提 her grief. I filled her tearful silence with all the positive things I'd heard from Ian's old friends. That he had been an Olympic-calibre 级别的 track athlete, faster than Herb Elliott, with Hollywood good looks that had sponsors chasing him. That he'd turned down an athletic scholarship at a top US college. That he was the brightest spark 最耀眼的少年, 最耀眼的明星 in his year at Haileybury College. That his fearlessness and athleticism on football fields had prompted St Kilda to try to recruit him to its junior development squad, but that he'd declined 拒绝了 this offer too. Karen knew all this already, but she was now reassessing why her brother had rebuffed the Saints 拒绝了. I told her Ian had inspired in his friends a depth of love and devotion that middle-aged men rarely verbalise. There was a tender, profound sense of longing in their anecdotes, about Ian's graceful stride around athletics tracks, his effortless command of a room, his wide-ranging intelligence and cheeky humour, and how his friends, in those highly impressionable and deeply felt early years of getting to know themselves and the world, based a portion of their self-worth on what Ian Walker thought of them. Time and again, people had billed themselves as Ian's "best friend", each more vehement that they'd known him most intimately, each so animated in their explanations of his extraordinariness, I suspected grief and nostalgia were enhancing the story beyond its true proportions. Another male member of staff complained to me that Rhys had propositioned (proposition [ˌprɒp.əˈzɪʃ.ən] noun. I. 商业提案. 商业提议. an offer or suggestion, usually in business. a suggestion or statement for consideration: The chairman was advised that it was a risky business proposition. He wrote to me last week regarding a business proposition he thought might interest me. I've put my proposition to the company director for his consideration. an offer or suggestion about a business activity: put/make a proposition to sb I've put my proposition to the company director for his consideration. accept/back/consider a proposition I need more time to consider your proposition. The line, which has advanced high-speed InterCity trains, is considered to be a highly attractive proposition for the private sector. a risky/viable proposition. a business/investment proposition. a commercial/economic proposition. II. an idea or opinion. a statement containing an idea or opinion: The proposition that the real rate of interest will be lower in future because of lower and more stable inflation is a myth. They were debating the proposition that "All people are created equal". III. mathematics, language specialized a statement or problem that must be solved or proved to be true or not true: Pythagoras's theorem is the mathematical proposition that in any right-angled triangle, the square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides. IV. politics US specialized in some states of the United States, a new plan that is voted on by the people of a state. in the US, a suggested change to state law that is voted on by people living in that state: proposition to do sth A proposition to increase the sales tax by a quarter cent to fund parks projects passed by 33 votes. He proposed an unsuccessful state proposition 提案. Under Proposition 71, the state will commit $3 billion to studying stem cells over the next 10 years. verb. I. to ask someone who you are not in a relationship with if they would like to have sex with you: I was propositioned by a complete stranger. ) him. Official views on such matters were much less tolerant in those days and he was required to leave at the end of the year. But Walkley had not even seen out送走 the 1981 school year. I found a newspaper advertisement for his job during the mid-year school holidays, in July, 1981; Aldred confirmed it meant Walkley had departed mid-year, with unusual abruptness.
