| 单词 | the facts of life |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe facts of life b. colloquial. the facts of life: the details of human sexual functions and practices, especially as given to children. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > [noun] > information about sex the facts of life1891 the birds and the bees1933 1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors I. xiv. 262 Her anxiety was vigilant to guard her girl from an infusion of any of the dread facts of life not coming through the mother's lips. 1913 Maclean's June 123/1 The need of teaching boys and girls the essential facts of life, so as to equip them for the momentous time when they choose life partners. 1930 W. S. Maugham Breadwinner i. 14 I shall never forget when I was leaving my prep school, and Dorothy told Alfred he must tell me what she called ‘the facts of life’. 1969 W. H. Auden City without Walls 71 Mother, tongue-tied with shyness, Struggling to tell him The Facts of Life he dared not Tell her he knew already. 2010 New Yorker 18 Oct. 90/3 The facts of life used to be called the secrets of generation because how life began was a mystery, the great mystery of life. < as lemmas |
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