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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• One day, it will be you sitting here telling some young Turk the facts of life.
  有一天，你会坐在这里教训年轻人生活的道理。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。