strait-laced

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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為了賭徒們的圣地。
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，或委內瑞拉等，（經濟政策）就沒有那么嚴謹。
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于節(jié)儉新時代，讓人想起上世紀50年代“勒緊褲腰帶”的時代。

To view Wharton's fiction as strait-laced, however, is to miss the elephant in the room.
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The strait-laced Hobbit is tapped by the wizard Gandalf (Sir Ian McKellen) for an adventure.
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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).
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having old-fashioned and unchanging morals, especially relating to sexual matters

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.