strait-laced 的定义
- excessively strict in conduct or morality; puritanical; prudish: strait-laced censors.
- tightly laced, as a bodice.
- wearing tightly laced garments.
strait-laced 近义词
prudish
更多strait-laced例句
- They lifted her up, and when they saw that she was laced too tightly, they cut the stay lace in two.
- Nonetheless, Turing killed himself on June 7, 1954, in a deliberately prepared way, by eating a cyanide-laced apple.
- About $10 billion was earmarked to build a bridge across the Kerch Strait, with its unpredictable currents during spring floods.
- Here, the whiskey-laced meat masters give you their favorite recipes.
- Next he laced on first the right skate, with a pad of cotton under the tongue, and then the left.
- The children of thy barrenness shall still say in thy ears: The place is too strait for me, make me room to dwell in.
- Departure on the fourth voyage, accompanied by a merchant-ship bound through Torres Strait.
- Directions for the passage within the reefs through Torres Strait.
- And the brave explorer sailed safely through the dangerous strait now named for him.
- On the south-side of Clarence Strait the land is low, like the coast to the eastward.