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

• Segregation is a fact of life.
  种族隔离成了一种生活现实。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• An immutable fact of life.
  生活中不可更改的事实。
• 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。
• We accept that as a fact of life.
  我们接受它，这就是生活的一部分。
• Accelerating business change is a fact of life for today's global commercial and institutional entities.
  商业变化的发生越来越快是今天全球商业和机构实体中一个不争的事实。
• That's just a simple fact of life.
  这是生活中的一个简单事实。