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

• Revision is a fact of life in design.
  修改并再修改，这是设计生活中的现实。
• So I readily accept that big business can be beneficial to society and is a fact of life.
  因此，我欣然认同以下这一点：大企业能够有利于社会，这是无可争辩的事实。
• 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。
• Unfortunately we live in a world where spam is a fact of life.
  不幸的是，我们生活的世界上，垃圾广告是无法更改的事实。
• 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。
• It would be best to take Chinese policy as a fact of life.
  最好还是将中国的政策作为一种无法改变的事实来对待。
• It is just a fact of life.
  这是生活中再明白不过的道理。
• 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。
• But the logic of public consciousness is a fact of life.
  但公众意识的逻辑乃是一种生活现实，我们必须面对。
• 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。