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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - He light-heartedly overlooks some of the basic facts of life.
他轻易地忽略了某些生活中的基本的现实。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。