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
- 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。 - Anyone seeking to tackle the problems facing the developing world must remember two simple facts of life.
任何寻求解决发展中国家面临的问题的人必须记住两个严酷的事实。 - 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？ - One of the great unchangeable facts of life.
生活中不可改变的伟大事实之一。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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 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。 - 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。 - 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。