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.- 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。
- Stress is a fact of life from time to time for all of us.
- 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.- 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。
- There comes a time when children need to know more than the basic facts of life.
英英释义
noun
- the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
双语例句
- 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。 - 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。 - I started to look at this fellow more closely for what he might know about the greater or deeper facts of life.
我开始仔细观察站在前面的这人，想知道他对于人生的更伟大、更深奥的哲理懂得些什么。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
我往山林去，因为我希望从容不迫地生活，面对生活的基实，检视是否能掌握生活的教诲，而不至于临终时，方才发现虚渡一生。 - 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。