strait-laced

常見例句

雙語例句

• Singapore seems to have gone from strait-laced container port to gambling mecca in one bound.
  新加坡似乎已從一個傳統(tǒng)的集裝箱港口城市一躍成爲(wèi)了賭徒們的聖地。
• Other Latin American countries—namely Argentina, Ecuador and Venezuela—have been less strait-laced.
  其他拉美國家，如阿根廷，厄瓜多爾，或委內(nèi)瑞拉等，（經(jīng)濟政策）就沒有那麼嚴(yán)謹(jǐn)。
• According to this view, the past decadent decade will give way to a new era of thrift, reminiscent of the strait-laced 1950s.
  根據(jù)這一觀點，奢華的過去十年可能讓位於節(jié)儉新時代，讓人想起上世紀(jì)50年代“勒緊褲腰帶”的時代。

權(quán)威例句

• To view Wharton's fiction as strait-laced, however, is to miss the elephant in the room.
  ECONOMIST: Literary biography
• 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).
  ECONOMIST: Iran's choice: pragmatist or hardliner? The
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