straight-laced

形容人在道德和行为规范上过分拘谨、保守，带有“古板严苛、近乎假正经”的意味，通常含贬义。

💡 记忆钩子

想象鞋带系得特别紧：连人的道德观和行为也被“系紧”了，不肯放松，于是从“拘谨守规矩”发展出“对道德问题过分保守、爱挑剔”的意思。

📝 学习建议

不要按字面把它理解成“直率”或“坦白”；它主要批评一个人在道德、恋爱、穿着等问题上过分保守、拘谨。
先掌握它形容人的负面用法，再理解它也可以形容某人的态度或观念。

📖 中文释义

adj

core 道德观念过分保守

📖 指一个人在道德问题上把规矩系得太紧，观念狭窄而拘谨，尤其容易对恋爱、性、穿着或社交行为表示反对或不赞成；说话人通常认为这种态度过头了。

💡 常用来描述人，也可放在“对某事”之后说明其拘谨的领域，例如“对恋爱很……”。它通常是贬义或带轻微嘲讽，不能直接等同于“有道德”或“严格”。修饰人的时候，往往暗示这个人的观念过时或缺少宽容。

My parents are a little straight-laced about dating.

我的父母在恋爱问题上有点过于保守。

The straight-laced teacher refused to discuss the topic in class.

那位拘谨保守的老师拒绝在课堂上讨论这个话题。

more straight-laced comparative straighter-laced comparative most straight-laced superlative straightest-laced superlative

📘 英文释义 (WordNet) 共 1 组

exaggeratedly proper

同义词集: priggish prim prissy prudish puritanical square-toed straitlaced strait-laced straightlaced straight-laced tight-laced victorian

my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts

近似: proper

🌳 词源

传统上认为它源于与表示“束缚得紧”的另一个词在口语中的混淆；后来由于它和“正直、守规矩”的联想很自然，便逐渐成为公认的固定形式。

Widely agreed to have originated (centuries ago) in homophonic confusion (in speech) of strait-laced (“tight-laced”), but long since so widely accepted and used, because having such strongly apparent analogy with straight in its senses relating to orthodoxy and conformity (compare squareness), that it can no longer accurately be called erroneous; instead it is an established alternative form with its own reanalyzed surface analysis. Compare straitjacket with *straightjacket; the latter is still usually regarded as an error, but the relationship is analogous.

🔄 变式

more straight-laced compar most straight-laced superl straighter-laced compar straightest-laced superl

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