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

• 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。
• People in large-power-distance counties such as India, Brazil, Singapore, Greece, Venezuela, Mexico, and the Philippines believe that power and authority are facts of life.
  在印度、巴西、新加坡、希腊、委内瑞拉、墨西哥和菲律宾等权利距离较大的国家里，人们相信，权力是生活中的事实。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。