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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。