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。
• Revision is a fact of life in design.
  修改并再修改，这是设计生活中的现实。
• Quiet fact of life in a beautiful landscape.
  宁静其实是人生中一道靓丽的风景线。
• 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。
• 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 is just a fact of life.
  这是生活中再明白不过的道理。
• 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。
• It is a fact of life is that many governments have strict data privacy laws that can impact the physical and logical disposition of certain data.
  一个不争的事实是，许多政府都有严格的数据隐私法律，可以影响某种数据的物理和逻辑配置。
• 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。
• An immutable fact of life.
  生活中不可更改的事实。