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

• 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。
• 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。
• It is just a fact of life.
  这是生活中再明白不过的道理。
• We all make mistakes. it's a fact of life.
  我们都会犯错误，生活就是如此。
• Oil spills seem to unfortunately be a fact of life when drilling and transporting oil from the ocean floor.
  漏油似乎是海底石油钻探和输送过程中很难完全避免的现象。
• Economics must still contend with scarcity as a basic fact of life.
  经济学仍然必须和稀缺相周旋，把稀缺当作生活中一种基本的事实。
• 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。
• Revision is a fact of life in design.
  修改并再修改，这是设计生活中的现实。
• 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。
• 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。