mum's the word, bonhomie, affability, 'Commencement', affability is disarming,

For now, the goal of a vast high-tech security state is out of reach. But the authorities, generally mum about security, are trying to convince the population it’s already arrived.



His affability is disarming, but it also masks a competitive streak that propelled Mr Banga from fast food to one of the top jobs at Citigroup, where he ran the global consumer bank, before joining MasterCard last year with a promise of quickly being promoted to chief executive.

他的亲和力容易让人消除戒心，但同时也掩盖了他勇于竞争的性格，这种性格使彭安杰从快餐行业，成长为花旗集团(Citigroup)的高管，负责该集团的个人银行业务。去年，他转投万事达，该公司承诺他将很快升任首席执行官。



Japan MOF's Ikeda targets deflation, mum on BOJ
Reuters
By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO, June 14 (Reuters) - Japan's new deputy finance minister Motohisa Ikeda said he will do his utmost to help the economy escape ...



Trump and McConnell Strive for Comity Amid Rising Tensions

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

President Trump and Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, put on a public display of bonhomie, waving aside reports of a disintegrating relationship.

'Commencement'

By J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN
Reviewed by MARIA RUSSO

In this affable first novel, alternating chapters present the viewpoints of four women who establish enduring bonds in their first week at Smith College.

A Genial Conservative for New York’s Archdiocese 
By MICHAEL POWELL
Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan is known for affability and an adherence to Rome’s conservative line.
Abroad, China’s hospitality (towards those who managed to get visas, at least), lavish spectacles and magnificent new stadiums drew widespread praise. But there will be many doubts about whether all the Olympic bonhomie has transformed the way China sees the world. As China’s response to foreign reactions to the unrest in Tibet in March suggested, this can be worryingly xenophobic. The party still sees it as essential to its legitimacy to portray the country as a victim of Western efforts to contain and dismember it.

bonhomie

n. (bŏn'ə-mē')
A pleasant and affable disposition; geniality.和藹可親

[French, from bonhomme, good-natured man : bon, good (from Latin bonus) + homme, man (from Latin homō).]

bonhomous bon'ho·mous (bŏn'ə-məs) adj.

affable
adjective
friendly and easy to talk to:
He struck me as an affable sort of a man.
She was quite affable at the meeting.

affably
adverb
He greeted us affably.

affability
noun [U] FORMAL


mum
adj.
Not verbalizing; silent.

interj.
Used as a command to stop speaking.

idiom:
mum's the word

1. Say nothing of the secret you know: Mum's the word on the surprise party.

[Middle English, perhaps imitative of closing one's lips.]

mum² (mŭm)
intr.v., mummed, mum·ming, mums.

1. To act or play in a pantomime.
2. To go merrymaking in a mask or disguise especially during a festival.

[Middle English mummen, from Old French momer, to wear a mask.]

mum³ (mŭm)
n. Chiefly British
Mother.

[Short for MUMMY².]

disarming
adj.
Tending to allay suspicion or hostility; winning favor or confidence: a disarming smile.

disarmingly dis·arm'ing·ly adv.

bonhomie, affability, 'Commencement'

  

affability[af・fa・bil・i・ty]

• 発音記号[æ`fəbíləti]

[名][U]愛想のよさ, 温和（な物腰）, 優しさ.