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的集裝箱港口城市一躍成爲了賭徒們的聖地。
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）就沒有那麽嚴謹。
According to this view, the past decadent decade will give way to a new era of thrift, reminiscent of the strait-laced 1950s.
根據這一觀點，奢華的過去十年可能讓位於節儉新時代，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.