strait-laced

adj.

1. （在道德行为上）拘谨保守的，古板的
   having strict or old-fashioned ideas about people's moral behaviour

1. ADJ-GRADED (道德方面)一本正经的，古板的，拘谨保守的
   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.
   1. 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。
   2. 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。

1. 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。
2. My old aunts are very strait-laced.
   我的老姨妈都很古板。
3. I couldn't tell that joke to my wife's parents because they are too strait-laced.
   我不能把那个笑话讲给我的岳父母听，因为他们太正统了。
4. AIG of the US showed that insurance is neither strait-laced nor safe.
   美国国际集团（AIG）的遭遇显示，保险业既不刻板，也不安全。
5. In Ohio, Rob Portman, a serious and strait-laced former US trade representative, is likely to take the vacant Senate seat for the Republicans and is already being touted as a future presidential candidate.
   在俄亥俄州，严肃拘谨的美国前贸易代表罗伯波特曼（robportman）有望为共和党赢得空缺的参议院席位，而且已经被追捧为未来的总统候选人。
6. Any time she wanted to fill her house with guests, she could do so and these guests would be far more entertaining, far more handsomely dressed than those prissy, strait-laced old fools who disapproved of her.
   她什么时候想大宴宾客，就可以发出邀请，这些客人和那些反对她的思想僵化的老糊涂相比，心情愉快得多，衣服也漂亮得多。
7. But his conformist image and manner belie his break with strait-laced Japanese business conventions.
   不过，他墨守成规的形象与举止，其实掩饰了他对日本企业刻板传统的背弃。
8. The show is delightful because of its contrast to the dreariness of modern, strait-laced office life.
   这部美剧让人感到愉悦，因为它与刻板的现代职场生活大相径庭。

adj

1. exaggeratedly proper
   1. my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts

   Synonym:    priggishprimprissyprudishpuritanicalsquare-toedstraitlacedstraightlacedstraight-lacedtight-lacedvictorian