Their parents had a puritanical streak and didn't approve of dancing.
他们的父母管教颇严格，不赞成跳舞。
1.清教徒的;清教主义的
2.宗教[道德]上极端拘谨的
1.having strict moral and religious beliefs and not approving of pleasure, for example in sexual activity, entertainment, or eating and drinking
1.A surgeon by profession, al-Zawahri, like bin Laden, gave up a life of privilege to violently promote a puritanical Islamic ideal.
身为外科医生的扎瓦赫里像本·拉登一样，放弃了养尊处优的生活，而投身于暴力推行一个极端的伊斯兰理想。
2.Puritanical societies for "the suppression of vice" encouraged punitive laws against disorderly houses and streetwalking.
“消除卖淫”运动的清教徒们鼓励用法律来惩罚这些混乱的建筑和街头卖淫行为。
3.Moreover, praise for self-control wasn't confined to the sex-negative Church and its puritanical progeny.
此外，对于自律的嘉许也不会指摘为教会的禁欲，或被划定是清教后嗣。
4.I also learned that the Puritanical devotion of working hard is not nearly as valuable as working smart.
我也知道了清教徒“辛勤工作”这种信仰比不上“聪明工作”有用。
5.Portland is not a puritanical city. In fact, its tenderloin is extensive and worse than anything in San Francisco.
波特兰并不是个清教徒式的城市。其实，这个城市中贪官污吏大捞油水的现象泛滥成灾，甚至比旧金山还要严重。
6.Another possible cause of vaginismus is a strict and puritanical upbringing that teaches a girl to consider sex dirty or evil.
阴道痉挛的另一个可能病因是训导女孩认为性是肮脏的或邪恶的清规戒律式养育方式。
7.In the black Protestant Church I entered a new world: prim, brown, puritanical girls who taught in the public schools.
我走进黑人新教堂，就犹如进入了一个新的世界；这里有在公立学校教书的、拘谨的、棕肤色的清教徒式的女子。
8.And how about his generalisations about stuffy, puritanical Anglo-Saxons?
那么，对古板拘谨的盎格鲁-撒克逊人，他的概括又如何呢？
9.But in the puritanical, modern business world, judgment is warped by something more pernicious: fear of lust and fear of alcohol.
但在清教徒式的现代商业世界，判断被更为致命的东西所扭曲：对欲望和酒精的恐惧。
10.He adds that Salafist groups, who follow the puritanical Saudi model of Islam, have flourished since Hosni Mubarak's fall.
他还说Salafist组织，一个效仿沙特模式的伊斯兰清教徒组织，在穆巴拉克倒台之后也蓬勃发展起来。