The facts of life

Definition

fact / fækt / n ၁။ [C] အမွန္တရား။ No one can deny the fact that fire burns. ❍ Poverty and crime are facts. ❍ I know for a fact (ie I know that it is really true) that he's involved in some illegal activities. ❍ I won't come here again, and that's a fact! ❍ The judge instructed both lawyers to stick to the facts of the case. ၂။ [ C ] ျဖစ္ရပ္မွန္။ အျဖစ္။ The fact that I couldn't speak the language made things very difficult for me. ❍ In spite of the fact that he had never played the game before, he played well. ❍ In view of the fact that it's getting late, ❍ we'll end the meeting now. ၃။ [ C ] အခ်က္အလက္။ If you're going to make accusations, you'd better get your facts right (ie make sure they are correct). ၄။ [U] အကယ္ရိွေသာအရာ။ အျဖစ္မွန္။ ျဖစ္ရပ္မွန္။ The story is founded on fact. ❍ It's important to distinguish fact from fiction. ❏ fact-finding adj အျဖစ္မွန္ ေဖာ္ထုတ္ရန္။ go on a fact-finding mission/tour. ❏ the fact (of the matter) is (that)… [ IDM ] ျဖစ္ရပ္မွန္ကေတာ့။ A new car would be wonderful but the fact of the matter is (that) we can't afford one. ❍ I agree that he tried hard. Nevertheless, the fact remains that he has not finished the job on time. ❏ a fact of life [ IDM ] ေလာကတံတြာ ဓမၼတာ တရား။ We must all die some time—that's just a fact of life. ❏ fact-sheet n အေၾကာင္းအရာ အခ်က္အလက္ အခ်ဳပ္။ For further details, write in for our free fact-sheet. ❏ facts and figures [ IDM ] ခိုင္လံုေသာ အခ်က္အလက္။ Before we make a decision, we need more facts and figures. ❏ the facts of life ( euph ) [ IDM ] ေလာကတံတြာ ဖိုမကိစၥ။ ❏ the facts speak for themselves [ IDM ] ရွင္းေနတာ ဘာအထူးေျပာစရာ လိုေသးလဲ။ ❏ in (actual) fact [ IDM ] အမွန္အားျဖင့္။ တကယ္ေတာ့။ I thought the work would be difficult. In fact, it's quite easy. ❍ In actual fact, he's much nicer than he seems.

Examples

1. They have simply attempted to state the facts.
2. [fact about] : The classes are designed to help children discover basic scientific facts.
3. [fact of] : He wrote an article explaining the main facts of the case.
4. [hard/plain facts] : We want the hard facts about what the project is going to cost.
5. The story is based on historical fact.
6. Margaret does not yet seem to have learned the difference between fact and fiction.
7. It’s obvious you’re angry
8. so why deny the fact?
9. [fact that] : He has never hidden the fact that he’s gay.