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

• One of the great unchangeable facts of life.
  生活中不可改变的伟大事实之一。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He liked to invert the so-called facts of life, to propound its paradoxes, and watch how the child's budding mind took them.
  他要把所谓人生的事实故事颠倒起来，要说些似是而非的话，试试那孩子怎么对答。
• 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。
• Sparks fly when we are together, you can't deny the facts of life.
  我们在一起时，爱的火花飞溅，你能否认这生命中的事实吗。
• 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。