America's earnest, decentralised political culture does not always appeal to starchy Britons.

美国式的认真的、分散的政治文化并不总吸引着拘谨的英国人。

I'm not a prude by any manner of means, but they must be so insecure.

无论，我不一个拘谨的人，但他们一定很没有安全感。

Some dislike the noise and formality of offices, or suffer from discrimination within them.

有些人不喜欢喧闹而拘谨的办公室环境，或者在办公室受到歧视。

Are you someone who's more laid back or more buttoned up and formal?

你比较随和的人还比较拘谨正式的人？

He said with an air of constraint.

他一脸拘谨的说道。

Such a strappen fine gentleman as he was too!

像他一样个拘谨的好绅士！

The least uptight person there was Tom Ford.

那里最不拘谨的人汤姆·福特。

" He has certainly interfered several times, " the inspector answered with reserve.

“他确实插手过几次。”有些拘谨的回答道。

77 The prim little girl grew up.

77 那个拘谨的小女孩长大了。

You see, you think of the Japanese as a very prudish people.

你看 大家都觉得日本个拘谨的民族。

The smile left Sister St. Joseph's face and she assumed an expression of some primness.

圣约瑟夫修女的脸上没有笑容， 她摆出一副拘谨的表情。

It doesn't help that your last boyfriend was a straight-laced college student.

Atsushi：你上一个男朋友个拘谨的大学生，这也无济于事。

“I've never asked, ” said Nearly Headless Nick delicately.

“我从来没问过。”差点没头的尼克拘谨地说。

It could be part of being an uptight Englishman that makes me a reluctant dancer.

这可能作为一个拘谨的英国人的一部分，这让我成为一个不情愿的舞者。

How did a free spirit like you end up with a daughter who is so uptight?

Ola：像你这样自由自在的人怎么会有这么拘谨的女儿？

They would laugh and drink and sing, to the amazement of the usually quiet and well-behaved peasants.

大家饮酒高歌，令规矩拘谨的农人都大为吃惊。

She held that it was prudish to insist upon the conventions of Notting Hill in the Boulevard de Montparnasse.

她认为，在蒙帕纳斯大道上坚持诺丁山的惯例很拘谨的。

And he avoids ways of writing that they find offensive or frustrating, including broad assumptions about goose farmers being introverted and stoic.

他避免采用他们认为令人反感或厌烦的写作方式，包括关于养鹅人内向、拘谨的广泛假设。

A woman who was normally prudish might dream of walking naked in a crowd without feeling any embarrassment.

一个平时拘谨的女人可能会梦见自己赤身裸体地走在人群中， 而不会感到任尴尬。

He was deeply offended at Montanelli's treatment of him, and showed it by unusual ceremoniousness.

他对蒙泰尼里对待他的方式深感愤怒，并以不同寻常的拘谨表现出来。