fact of life

英 [fækt ɒv laɪf]

美 [fækt 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

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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。

双语例句

• We consider it a fact of life: after age 30, everything starts to go downhill.
  我们一向认定这是生命的事实：三十岁之后，每件事都开始走下坡。
• We must all die some timethat's just a fact of life.
  我们终有一死，这就是生活的现实。
• For most of us, work is the central, dominating fact of life.
  对于我们大多数人来说，工作是生活中主要的、占据着主导地位的一部分。
• Segregation is a fact of life.
  种族隔离成了一种生活现实。
• The stellar astronomers have to accept low intensity reciprocity failure as a significant fact of life.
  恒星天文学家不得不承认低强度倒易律失效是重大的事实。
• She says such discrimination is a fact of life in Vietnam.
  她说，此类歧视是在越南生活所要面对的一个现实。
• Mutation has been and always will be an essential fact of life.
  基因突变（变异）过去一直是，将来也还是生命现象中的基本现实存在。
• It's a basic fact of life that many things "everybody knows" turn out to be wrong.
  一个基本常识是有些大家都知道的事情结果往往是错误的。
• Your uniqueness is a scientific fact of life.
  你的独特性是有科学根据。
• That's just a simple fact of life.
  这是生活中的一个简单事实。