strait-laced
柯林斯词典
1. ADJ 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. 拘謹古板的[表不滿]
He was criticized for being boring, strait-laced and narrow-minded. 他被批評爲乏味、古板守舊及心胸狹窄。
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strait-laced (also straitlaced)
剑桥词典
- having old-fashioned and unchanging morals , especially relating to sexual matters
(尤指在性問題上)古板的,拘謹的,保守的
The joke shocked her strait-laced parents . 這個笑話讓她古板的父母驚呆了。 返回 strait-laced