柯林斯詞典strait-laced (also straitlaced) 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。 返回 strait-laced劍橋詞典having old-fashioned and unchanging morals , especially relating to sexual matters (尤指在性問題上)古板的,拘謹?shù)?,保守? 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