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

• At what age should children be told the facts of life?
  孩子们应该在什么年龄了解有关性的常识？
• Sparks fly when we are together, you can't deny the facts of life.
  我们在一起时，爱的火花飞溅，你能否认这生命中的事实吗。
• 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。
• But if she waits until she is40, the facts of life are against her to begin with.
  但如果她要等到40岁，那年龄首先是个制约因素。
• One of the great unchangeable facts of life.
  生活中不可改变的伟大事实之一。
• His journey is interrupted by a stretch in the Charleston penitentiary, where he learns a few painful facts of life.
  就在事业风生水起之时，他被抓入查尔斯顿监狱，服刑期间吃了不少苦头。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The hard conditions or facts of life can enrich human beings'experiences.
  人生中困难的处境可以丰富人的生活阅历。