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They also tend to be conservative-minded and thus are likely to embrace Singapore's unique mixture of free-market economics and strait-laced politics.

他们也尝试着让思想保守起来，这样才有可能迎合新加坡独一无二的自由市场经济与刻板的政治纲领的混合物。

Breed. Yet that was written in strait-laced America when finance was stilltravelled east of the Statue of Liberty.

然而这句话的时代正处于美国被严格管制的时期，那时金融依旧被大萧条时代的规章严格控制，人们也很少向自由女神像以东的地区投资。

According to this view, the past decadent decade will give way to a new era of thrift, reminiscent of the strait-laced 1950s.

根据这一观点，奢华的过去十年可能让位于节俭新时代，让人想起上世纪50年代&勒紧裤腰带&的时代。

Other Latin American countries—namely Argentina, Ecuador and Venezuela—have been less strait-laced.

其他拉美国家，如阿根廷，厄瓜多尔，或委内瑞拉等，就没有那么严谨。

To view Wharton's fiction as strait-laced, however, is to miss the elephant in the room.

认为华顿的作品一成不变，刻板固执，这种故意的视而不见可谓是掩耳盗铃，自欺欺人。

Of particular interest, though, was the prospect of exploring a new type of interpersonal dynamic within the Order -- specifically the burgeoning friendship between Ahsoka and the strait-laced Barriss.

不过她特别感兴趣的，是她可以探索绝地组织内部一种新型的人际交往关系，也就是阿索卡和正统的巴丽斯之间迅速成长的友谊。

Two countries cannot be more different. One is Confucianist and strait-laced, the other is democratic and rambunctious. Or to use Amartya Sen's words,"The Indian is argumentative".

人口总合占了全球人口四成的这两个国家，在本质上截然不同：一个奉行伦理、严格拘谨；另一个是个民主社会、粗暴喧闹，或者借用阿马蒂亚森的话说，「印度人能言好辩」。

Paul Krugman, the most recent Nobel laureate for economics, puts it with characteristic acerbity: the huge, strait-laced, bureaucratic corporations that ruled the roost before the dotcoms were, he says, like "socialism without the justice".

克鲁格曼标志性的尖酸刻薄数落道，在网络一族统治市场之前，那些墨守陈规、官僚气十足的公司巨头，简直就像&没有正义的社会主义&。

Paul Krugman, the most recent Nobel laureate for economics, puts it with characteristic acerbity: the huge, strait-laced, bureaucratic corporations that ruled the roost before the dotcoms were, he says, like "socialism without the justice".

最近一位诺贝尔经济学奖获得者保罗·克鲁格曼标志性的尖酸刻薄数落道，在网络一族统治市场之前，那些墨守陈规、官僚气十足的公司巨头，简直就像&没有正义的社会主义&。

Firecrackers exploded in the streets of Beijing,while strait-laced （固守道德观念的;拘谨的） Chinese officials shimmied uncertainly to the beat of Saturday Night Fever.

北京街道上响起了一片爆竹声，严谨古板的中国官员按着《星期六夜晚的狂欢》的拍子不那么优美地跳起狐步舞来。

Chinese traditional virtue is humility and wariness,the compliment and praise to the others should be declination

中国人的传统美德是谦虚谨慎，对别人的恭维和夸奖应是推辞。如

We bought this house on the never-never.

我们以分期付款的方式买下这座房子。