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
- U can't deny the facts of life.
你不能否认这些无法更改的事实。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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？ - 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。 - 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。