straitlaced
英 [ˈstreɪtˈleɪst]
美
adj. (道德方面)一本正经的,拘谨保守的,古板的
过去式:straitlaced
柯林斯词典
- ADJ-GRADED (道德方面)一本正经的,古板的,拘谨保守的
If you describe someone asstrait-laced, you disapprove of them because they have very strict views about what kind of behaviour is moral or acceptable.- He was criticised for being boring, strait-laced and narrow-minded...
他被指无趣乏味,古板守旧,心胸狭窄。 - Our unconventional behaviour did in fact shock some of our more straitlaced friends.
我们这一不合常规的行为实际上着实让我们的一些一本正经的朋友吓了一大跳。
- He was criticised for being boring, strait-laced and narrow-minded...
英英释义
adj
- exaggeratedly proper
- my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts
双语例句
- Don Corleone, notoriously straitlaced in such matters, though his stout wife was screaming joyfully with the others, disappeared tactfully into the house.
堂-科利昂,在这种事情上是众所周知地刻板,虽然他的胖妻子正在和别人一起高兴地尖叫着,得体地消失在那所房子里。 - The Don was straitlaced about sex.
老头子对男女关系是极端严谨的。 - Our unconventional behaviour did in fact shock some of our more straitlaced friends.
我们这一不合常规的行为实际上着实让我们的一些一本正经的朋友吓了一大跳。 - In the process, he overhauled one of the most entrenched, straitlaced corporate cultures ever devised by man.
在此过程中,他闯过了一个人类所发明的最大的壕沟,顽固的企业文化。 - I didn't dare tell her I lived with my boyfriend-she's so straitlaced.
我不敢告诉她我和我男友住在一起&她太占板了。 - The distributing of the straitlaced process of symbol representation is different on different background of experience.
不同的经验策略背景,学生的心理表征过程的分布有所不同。