straitlaced

音标发音

• 英式音标 [st'reɪtleɪst]
• 美式音标 [st'reɪtleɪst]
• 国际音标 ['streit'leist]

基本解释

• adj. 嚴格的；固執的；刻板的
• v. 用系帶縛緊（straitlace的過去式）

同根派生

英汉例句

雙語例句

• My straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts.
  我刻板的安娜姑母不喜歡我的迷你裙。
• Dad looked straitlaced in his short-sleeved white shirt, skinny tie, and plastic pocket liner holding a pen, a notebook, and sometimes a slide rule.
  父親穿著短袖白襯衣，戴著薄領帶，上衣口袋裡放著一支筆和一本筆記本，有時候還有皮尺，看上去真的很刻板。
• 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，在這種事情上是衆所周知地刻板，雖然他的胖妻子正在和別人一起高興地尖叫著，得躰地消失在那所房子裡。
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權威例句

• In many ways, both the 13-year-old festival and the straitlaced Singapore government have come of age.
  ECONOMIST: A little bit on the screen
• But this correspondent, who once worked as an aide in the Springfield statehouse, can reveal that this is not a straitlaced place.
  ECONOMIST: Little local difficulties
• As Portia fights her straitlaced colleagues to get Jeremiah in, she also fights the family-unfriendly habits she has learned from her fiercely feminist mother (Lily Tomlin).
  NEWYORKER: Admission

词组短语

短語

• straitlaced E 嚴格的