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.- 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.
英英释义
noun
- the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
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。 - 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。 - 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。 - One of the great unchangeable facts of life.
生活中不可改变的伟大事实之一。 - 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。 - 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？ - 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。 - They didn't teach the "facts of life" at my school.
不过我们学校有“生命的秘密”这门课。 - Had a man-to-man talk about the facts of life. He is a man of transparent sincerity.
作了一次关于人生实际的坦率、真诚的谈话。他是一个坦率诚恳的人。 - For children with cancer, the facts of life include the facts of death.
对患有癌症的儿童来说，生命的现实之中包含着死亡。