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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。