strait-lacedadj.
英 'streit'leist | 美
中文adj. 极拘谨的;固守道德观念的(等于straitlaced)
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strait-laced (adj.)early 15c., of stays or bodices, "made close and tight;" see strait (adj.) + lace (v.). Figurative sense of "over-precise, prudish, strict in manners or morals" is from 1550s.
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