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.- 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.
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。