It was not so much a better principle , as partly his natural good taste , and still more his buckramed habit of clerical decorum , that carried him safely through 让他得以平安地度过这次危机的,倒不是因为他有什么更高的准则,而是因为他天生具有优雅的情趣,更主要的,是因为他那形成牢固习惯的教士礼仪。
英文解释
rigidly formal; "a starchy manner"; "the letter was stiff and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality" 同义词:starchy, stiff,
stiffen with or as with buckram; "buckram the skirt"
a coarse cotton fabric stiffened with glue; used in bookbinding and to stiffen clothing