strait-laced

dressed in sweatpants, he does not look the strait-laced apparatchik, nor is his office typical of a chinese businessman's.

黄怒波身着运动裤，看上去不像一丝不苟的共产党官员，而他的办公室也不是典型的中国商人的办公室。

AIG of the US showed that insurance is neither strait-laced nor safe.

美国国际集团（AIG）的遭遇显示，保险业既不刻板，也不安全。

He was criticised for being boring, strait-laced and narrow-minded.

他被指无趣乏味，古板守旧，心胸狭窄。

But his conformist image and manner belie his break with strait-laced Japanese business conventions.

不过，他墨守成规的形象与举止，其实掩饰了他对日本企业刻板传统的背弃。

The show is delightful because of its contrast to the dreariness of modern, strait-laced office life.

这部美剧让人感到愉悦,因为它与刻板的现代职场生活大相径庭.

My old aunts are very strait-laced.

我的老姨妈都很古板.

I couldn't tell that joke to my wife's parents because they are too strait-laced.

我不能把那个笑话讲给我的 岳 父母听,因为他们太正统了.

He was criticised for being boring, strait-laced and narrow-minded

他被指无趣乏味，古板守旧，心胸狭窄。

Strait-laced, off the junk. You've successfully cured him of anything that was interesting about his personality.

拘谨克制抗争本性的衰样子你成功地把他从原本颇为有趣的本性中解救了出来

Any time she wanted to fill her house with guests, she could do so and these guests would be far more entertaining, far more handsomely dressed than those prissy, strait-laced old fools who disapproved of her.

她什么时候想大宴宾客，就可以发出邀请，这些客人和那些反对她的思想僵化的老糊涂相比，心情愉快得多，衣服也漂亮得多。

In Ohio, Rob Portman, a serious and strait-laced former US trade representative, is likely to take the vacant Senate seat for the Republicans and is already being touted as a future presidential candidate.

在俄亥俄州，严肃拘谨的美国前贸易代表罗伯波特曼（rob portman）有望为共和党赢得空缺的参议院席位，而且已经被追捧为未来的总统候选人。