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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• I suggest that you get some friends over for a girly chat about the facts of life.
  我建议你找些朋友，进行一场女孩子之间的交谈，聊聊生活真相。
• They didn't teach the "facts of life" at my school.
  不过我们学校有“生命的秘密”这门课。
• Do you want to get to know the dope of the competition and communicate with the judges? As a cub reporter he would learn the facts of life in the newspaper world.
  想了解赛场内幕，与裁判长面对面交流吗？作为一名初出茅庐的记者，他要了解报界生涯的内幕。