The avuncular Mr Jalil has proved wilier than he at first appeared.

沉稳的贾利勒比起先看起来要热心一些。

The real Joe Biden, then vice-president, was a teetotaling and avuncular elder statesman, not a hair-metal-loving party animal.

而真正的乔·拜，是当时的副总统，是一位滴酒不沾的慈祥政元老，决不是一个喜欢微金属摇滚的派对达。

And there is the root of the matter; writing has come to be recognized as a profession, almost as cut-and-dried as church or law; a lad may go into it with full parental approval, with ready avuncular support.

这是问题的根源；写作已被公认为一种职业，几乎与教会或法律一样千篇一律；一个小伙子可能会在父母的完全同意和长辈的支持下进入它。