Their parents had a puritanical streak and didn't approve of dancing.(他們的父母管教頗嚴格，不贊成跳舞。)

And how about his generalisations about stuffy, puritanical Anglo-Saxons?(那么，對古板拘謹的盎格魯-撒克遜人，他的概括又如何呢？)

Unfortunately, this puritanical view of personal resolve plays down how our surroundings and mental state determine what we eat.(不幸的是，這種清教徒式的個人決心使得周圍環境和精神狀態對“吃什么”的決定作用大為減輕。)

The secret (whisper it, lest puritanical greens find out) is that electric motors are better than combustion engines.(秘密在于(小聲點，以免極端環保主義者發現這一點)電動引擎比燃動引擎優越。)

They adhered to an old-fashioned and somewhat puritanical morality, and criticized their friend Ingrid Bergman for destroying her film career by having an illegitimate child with Roberta Rossellini.(他們都恪守著一套古舊乃至有些苛刻的道德標準，因而對英格麗·褒曼與導演羅伯托·羅西里尼同居并未婚生子的行為頗有微詞。)

I'm not against the coffee bars for puritanical reasons, but because it USES women's bodies for commerce.(我不是用清教徒的動機反對這些咖啡館，但是他們不該把女性的身體作商業用途。)

President Obama is right about the need for more responsibility, but for those of you who have been responsible, this is the time to disregard those puritanical whispers and buy something fun.(奧巴馬說人們要有擔當，這沒錯。但是對那些一貫負責任的人來說，現在無需理會那些清教徒的耳語，去買些有意思的玩意兒吧。)

For Saudi Arabia is a country in which both rulers and ruled are equally arch- conservative, adhering, for the last two centuries, to the puritanical Wahhabi doctrine of Islam.(至此打破了原本因循守舊的罕百里學派和瓦哈比教派聯合在一起形成的壟斷，這種壟斷只是發生在沙特。)

There are some moments of navel-gazing from the almost puritanical reformed characters, and some passages verge on the absurd, but Mr Shone maintains a pace that whips the story back to reality.(書中有些片段是[color=#0000ff]被清教徒[color=#0000ff]戒律洗腦的人物在紙上談兵，而有些段落則接近荒誕，但肖尼保持步調讓故事回到現實。)

Those who remembered when it was plentiful were puritanical about food.(這組詞的共同意思是“豐富的”。)

The severe puritanical bulk of the chapel.