英 [ˌstreɪt ˈleɪst] 美 [ˌstreɪt ˈleɪst]
adj. （道德观念上）极拘谨的，古板的（等于 straight-laced）
strait-laced //
形容词 If you describe someone as strait-laced, you disapprove of them because they have very strict views about what kind of behaviour is moral or acceptable. 拘谨古板的
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。
exaggeratedly proper
同义词： priggish / prim / prissy / prudish / puritanical / square-toed / straitlaced / straightlaced / straight-laced / tight-laced / victorian
... serious 严肃的 strait-laced 固守道德观念的... humourless 缺乏幽默感的...
... laced corset穿带紧身衣 strait-laced固守道德观念的；拘谨的 laced valley〖建〗搭瓦天沟 ...
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。
My old aunts are very strait-laced.
我的老姨妈都很古板。
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.
The strait-laced Hobbit is tapped by the wizard Gandalf (Sir Ian McKellen) for an adventure.
FORBES: Review: The Hobbit: An Unexpected, But Very Welcome, Journey
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).