strait-laced 固守道德观念的 ; 拘谨的
"my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
同义词: priggish prim prissy prudish puritanical square-toed strait-laced straightlaced straight-laced tight-laced victorian
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My old aunts are very strait laced.
我的老姨妈都很古板。
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He was criticized for being boring, strait-laced and narrow-minded.
他被批评为乏味、古板守旧及心胸狭窄。
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Singapore seems to have gone from strait-laced container port to gambling mecca in one bound.
新加坡似乎已从一个传统的集装箱港口城市一跃成为了赌徒们的圣地。
To view Wharton's fiction as strait-laced, however, is to miss the elephant in the room.
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The strait-laced Hobbit is tapped by the wizard Gandalf (Sir Ian McKellen) for an adventure.
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State-controlled television gave reasonably even-handed campaign coverage and screened slick, Hollywoodised propaganda slots produced by some of the candidates (though not the strait-laced Mr Ahmadi-Nejad).
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