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

• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• One of the great unchangeable facts of life.
  生活中不可改变的伟大事实之一。
• I suggest that you get some friends over for a girly chat about the facts of life.
  我建议你找些朋友，进行一场女孩子之间的交谈，聊聊生活真相。
• 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。
• 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。
• His journey is interrupted by a stretch in the Charleston penitentiary, where he learns a few painful facts of life.
  就在事业风生水起之时，他被抓入查尔斯顿监狱，服刑期间吃了不少苦头。
• 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。
• 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。