facts of life

英 [fækts ɒv laɪf]

美 [fækts əv laɪf]

n.  (令人不快却又无可奈何的)生活现实; (教给儿童的)性知识
fact of life的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT (令人不快却又无法改变的)生活现实
  You say that something which is not pleasant is afact of lifewhen there is nothing you can do to change it so you must accept it.
  1. Stress is a fact of life from time to time for all of us.
     对我们所有人来说，精神压力常常是无从逃避的生活现实。
• N-PLURAL (教给儿童的)性知识
  If you tell a child aboutthe facts of life, you tell him or her about sexual intercourse and how babies are born.
  1. There comes a time when children need to know more than the basic facts of life.
     是时候孩子们了解更多性知识了。

英英释义

noun

• the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
  Synonym:reproductionprocreationbreeding

双语例句

• You are too trusting; it's one of the hard facts of life that not everybody is as honest as you are.
  你太相信别人了，严酷的现实并不是每个人都像你那样诚实。
• If there is development, there is also decline and decay, and these, as the sonnet form codes it, are simple facts of life that poetic idealism, that Romanticism, cannot override.
  有成长必有消亡，十四行诗中的这些，都是生命中的事实，是诗的理想化和浪漫主义所不能逾越的。
• One day, it will be you sitting here telling some young Turk the facts of life.
  有一天，你会坐在这里教训年轻人生活的道理。
• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
  我往山林去，因为我希望从容不迫地生活，面对生活的基实，检视是否能掌握生活的教诲，而不至于临终时，方才发现虚渡一生。
• Had a man-to-man talk about the facts of life. He is a man of transparent sincerity.
  作了一次关于人生实际的坦率、真诚的谈话。他是一个坦率诚恳的人。
• One of the great unchangeable facts of life.
  生活中不可改变的伟大事实之一。
• And since you're no longer children, at least officially, it's time someone tells you the facts of life.
  你们已然不是小孩儿了，至少现在有人该告诉你一些关于人生的实情了。
• Anyone seeking to tackle the problems facing the developing world must remember two simple facts of life.
  任何寻求解决发展中国家面临的问题的人必须记住两个严酷的事实。
• He light-heartedly overlooks some of the basic facts of life.
  他轻易地忽略了某些生活中的基本的现实。
• For children with cancer, the facts of life include the facts of death.
  对患有癌症的儿童来说，生命的现实之中包含着死亡。