单词 | fact of life |
释义 | fact of life From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishfact of lifeˌfact of ˈlife noun (plural facts of life) [countable]1 an unpleasant situation that exists and that must be accepted Mass unemployment seems to be a fact of life nowadays. Persuading others to accept the hard financial facts of life is not a very popular job.2 → the facts of lifeExamples from the Corpusfact of life• Incomplete systems are accepted as a fact of life.• Financial insecurity has become a fact of life for significant segments of the middle and working classes.• Anyway, it's not neurotic, it's a fact of life, a biological, evolutionary thing.• Despite the problems with groups they remain a major fact of life in all organizations.• Leprosy was a disease, no more; it was an unpleasant fact of life, like poverty and illiteracy. |
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