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

  1. 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 a fact of life when 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。
  2. N-PLURAL (教给儿童的)性知识
    If you tell a child about the 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。

双语例句

  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。
  2. 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。
  3. 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。
  4. 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。
  5. And since you're no longer children, at least officially, it's time someone tells you the facts of life.
    你们已然不是小孩儿了,至少现在有人该告诉你一些关于人生的实情了。
  6. 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。
  7. 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。
  8. 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。
  9. 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。
  10. 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。
  11. U can't deny the facts of life.
    你不能否认这些无法更改的事实。
  12. Things can get along without you, as history and many facts of life can testify.
    历史证明,各种事实证明,没有你也行。
  13. 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?
  14. 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。
  15. 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。
  16. The hard conditions or facts of life can enrich human beings'experiences.
    人生中困难的处境可以丰富人的生活阅历。
  17. 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。
  18. 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。
  19. 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。
  20. 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。
  21. 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。
  22. 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。
  23. If there is development, there is also decline and decay, and these, as the sonnet form codes it, are simple facts of life that poetic idealism, that Romanticism, cannot override.
    有成长必有消亡,十四行诗中的这些,都是生命中的事实,是诗的理想化和浪漫主义所不能逾越的。
  24. 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。
  25. One of the great unchangeable facts of life.
    生活中不可改变的伟大事实之一。
  26. 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。
  27. 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。
  28. 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。
  29. 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。
  30. 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。

英英释义

noun

  1. the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring

      Synonym:    reproductionprocreationbreeding