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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - One of the great unchangeable facts of life.
生活中不可改变的伟大事实之一。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。