1. The office is a straight-laced place, and its conventions don''t mesh well with the messiness and curiosities of real life.
    办公室是个一丝不苟的场所，这里的习俗与真实生活中的混乱、怪异并不契合得很好。

2. Mine is very prim and straight-laced.
    我姑妈是很严肃的。

3. Except for a few straight-laced Confucians and a few pious Taoists, the Chinese man or woman practiced both -- either at different phases of life or as different sides of personality and taste.
    除了一小部分严格刻板的儒教徒和一小部分虔诚的道教徒外，中国的男男女女都熟悉两者——在生命的不同阶段或者个性和体验的不同方面上。