fact of life
英 [fækt ɒv laɪf]
美 [fækt 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
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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.
双语例句
- It would be best to take Chinese policy as a fact of life.
最好还是将中国的政策作为一种无法改变的事实来对待。 - So I readily accept that big business can be beneficial to society and is a fact of life.
因此,我欣然认同以下这一点:大企业能够有利于社会,这是无可争辩的事实。 - We consider it a fact of life: after age 30, everything starts to go downhill.
我们一向认定这是生命的事实:三十岁之后,每件事都开始走下坡。 - We accept that as a fact of life.
我们接受它,这就是生活的一部分。 - She says such discrimination is a fact of life in Vietnam.
她说,此类歧视是在越南生活所要面对的一个现实。 - Segregation is a fact of life.
种族隔离成了一种生活现实。 - Oil spills seem to unfortunately be a fact of life when drilling and transporting oil from the ocean floor.
漏油似乎是海底石油钻探和输送过程中很难完全避免的现象。 - Economics must still contend with scarcity as a basic fact of life.
经济学仍然必须和稀缺相周旋,把稀缺当作生活中一种基本的事实。 - For most of us, work is the central, dominating fact of life.
对于我们大多数人来说,工作是生活中主要的、占据着主导地位的一部分。 - We all make mistakes. it's a fact of life.
我们都会犯错误,生活就是如此。