Known to villagers and his children alike as " lao shuji , " or old secretary , wu has a genial , grandfatherly demeanor that belies a hardheaded steeliness .
村民们和他的子女们同样认他作“老书记”,吴和蔼、慈祥的风度举止下埋藏着无懈可击的冷静和坚定。
Mr. mortenson , a frumpy , genial man from montana , takes a diametrically opposite approach , and he has spent less than one-ten-thousandth as much as the bush administration .
But at a general election last may , thanks largely to its genial leader , jack layton , it won more than 30 % of the vote and an unprecedented 102 of the 308 seats in the house of commons , replacing the once-dominant liberals as the official opposition to stephen harper 's conservative government .
Janice their supervisor a tall and angular woman who took pride in her extreme fairness and efficiency came for a routine inspection once a week ; dr. wilson the attending veterinarian a genial and absent-minded man was about to retire any day now .