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

• 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。
• Ofsted urged schools to provide embarrassed parents with material to help explain the facts of life to their children.
  Ofsted要求学校为那些“尴尬”的父母提供一些资料来帮助他们向孩子解释性知识。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Doctors and teachers still discuss at what age children should be told the facts of life.
  关于孩子们该在什么年纪接受性知识教育的问题，医生和教师仍在探讨之中。
• 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。
• One of the great unchangeable facts of life.
  生活中不可改变的伟大事实之一。
• 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。
• 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。