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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• U can't deny the facts of life.
  你不能否认这些无法更改的事实。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。