straight and narrow

After his release from the jail he resolved to follow the straight and narrow.

他出狱后,决心规规矩矩做人.

He taught his children to keep strictly to the straight and narrow.

他教育他的孩子们严守正道.

Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosure.

友谊需要自由，不只是限定在狭小的圈子里。

Germany, at the Ptolemaic centre of the eurozone, is in a far more comfortable position: growth may be fading but, thanks to its Ptolemaic advantage, interest rates are low enough to enable Berlin to keep on the fiscal straight and narrow.

位于欧元区托勒密中心的德国，处境要安逸得多：经济增速或许正在放缓，但得益于在托勒密体系中占据的优势，利率所维持的低水平，依然能让德国行驶在正常的财政轨道上。

In the past five years, physicists have uncovered a new kind of material that can keep electrons on the straight and narrow, eliminating collisions and slashing the amount of heat produced.

过去五年，物理学家们已经发现一种新物质，该物质能将电子限制在笔直而狭窄的通道中，避免其到处乱窜以至碰撞，以此来减少热量的排放。

After his release from the jail he resolved to follow the straight and narrow. Our thoughts and actions create our destiny of heaven or hell.

他出狱后，决心规规矩矩做人。天堂和地狱，都是由心和行为所造作。

All her efforts to keep him on the straight and narrow have been rewarded.

她为了让他走正道所作出的一切努力都得到了回报。

His wife is trying to keep him on the straight and narrow.

他妻子想方设法让他要诚实正派。

Such decentralized data collection could even force governments to stay on the sustainability straight and narrow.

这一权力下放的数据收集甚至能迫使政府安分守己地坚持可持续发展。

He finds it difficult to stay on / stick to the straight and narrow for long.

他觉得长期地坚持走正道很难.

The pastor tried hard, but unsuccessfully, to keep the boys to the straight and narrow path.

牧师竭力使男孩们循规蹈矩可是无效.

He must keep to the straight and narrow path, no doubt about it.

还是得往正路走, 一定!

It's easy to see how an 18-year-old millionaire could veer off track, but it's the company Bieber keeps that seems to keep him on the straight and narrow.

看一个18岁的百万富翁如何一夜成名是很简单的，然而也正是比伯所在的这家经纪公司让他一直安分守己，规矩做人。

Her hands were thin and sharply, her nose straight, her face artistically narrow.

她的双手薄而好看, 鼻梁正直, 面孔狭得很雅致.

He's making an effort to get back on the straight and narrow.

他在努力回归安分守已的生活。

The servants'steps were the quickest way down& not grand, but steep and straight and narrow, hidden in the walls.

仆从的阶梯是下去的最佳捷径&没有守卫，但是隐于墙内又陡又直又窄。

For just a few minutes of your day, you can help a columnist get on the straight-and-narrow with his editors, who are a mean and surly lot.

只需几分钟，您就可以帮助一位专栏作家直接、正面地与他的编辑沟通，他们是一群凶狠且脾气坏的人。