affable
affable 英 [ˈæfəbl] 美 [ˈæfəbəl]
adj. 和蔼可亲的；友善的
- Affable means friendly, pleasant, and easy to talk to. An affable host offers you something to drink and makes you feel at home.
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- adj. 和蔼可亲的；友善的
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1. She is affable to everyone.
她对每一个人都和蔼可亲。
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2. affable if slightly wary, he is an old hand at interviews, deftly batting away questions that don’t suit him, including most concerning the current state of Chinese literature and his place in it.
友善而稍警惕的态度，表明他在采访上已经是个老手了，他敏捷的绕开不喜欢的问题，包括关于现在中国文学的评价以及他在其中的地位。
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3. By this, I mean that it should be flexible and affable to change without distorting its intrinsic essence to meet the systems’ technical constraints.
我的意思是，设计应该是灵活友好的，能够在修改以迎合系统技术限制的同时不扭曲其原有内涵。
- affable (adj.) of persons, "open to conversation or approach," late 15c., from Old French affable "benign, approachable" (14c.), from Latin affabilis "approachable, courteous, kind, friendly," literally "who can be (easily) spoken to," from affari "to speak to," from ad "to" (see ad-) + fari "to speak," from PIE root *bha- (2) "to speak, tell, say." Related: Affably.
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