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

• U can't deny the facts of life.
  你不能否认这些无法更改的事实。
• It's only right for middle school students to learn something about the facts of life.
  对中学生来说学习一些性常识是对的。
• He liked to invert the so-called facts of life, to propound its paradoxes, and watch how the child's budding mind took them.
  他要把所谓人生的事实故事颠倒起来，要说些似是而非的话，试试那孩子怎么对答。
• 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。
• 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。
• Things can get along without you, as history and many facts of life can testify.
  历史证明，各种事实证明，没有你也行。
• Teenage magazines are taking the place of parents in teaching children the facts of life, an official report warns.
  一份官方报告发出警告，青少年杂志正在取代父母，充当起对孩子进行性教育的角色。
• Like the earth itself, it knows only the hard facts of life's struggle with death.
  如同世界本身一样，进化只知道生命与死亡抗争的残酷现实。你能做的只有满怀希望与信心去对待它。
• People in large-power-distance counties such as India, Brazil, Singapore, Greece, Venezuela, Mexico, and the Philippines believe that power and authority are facts of life.
  在印度、巴西、新加坡、希腊、委内瑞拉、墨西哥和菲律宾等权利距离较大的国家里，人们相信，权力是生活中的事实。
• Children are always asking awkward questions about the facts of life.
  孩子们总是会问一些有关性识的尴尬问题。