| 单词 | habit is second nature |
| 释义 | > as lemmashabit (or usage) is second nature b. Proverb: habit (or usage) is second nature. Hence (without allusion to the proverb) to be (come as, etc.) second nature (to one): to be as if natural or instinctive. Occasionally in elliptical constructions without a verb.The Latin form, consuetudo est altera (or secunda) natura, is found in St. Augustine and Macrobius, and approximately in Cicero (see Lewis & Short at Natura); the notion occurs in Aristotle (e.g. Probl. iv. xxvi, Eth. N. vii. x) and other Greek writers. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > accustomedness usagec1485 accustomedness1595 assuetude1626 customariness1632 wontedness1649 habit (or usage) is second nature1662 inuredness1682 habituality1801 usedness1871 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 23 For in Phisique this I finde, Usage is the seconde kinde. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 89 That habit being as it were converted into a second nature. a1729 J. Rogers 19 Serm. (1735) xii. 254 Habits which..are become a kind of second Nature to him. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth III. vii. 113 Those to whom long practice has rendered them [sc. frivolous fopperies] a second nature. 1910 S. E. White in Sunset Apr. 421/1 Bob..rolled over twice with the rapid, vigorous twist second-nature to a seasoned half-back. 1944 Sun (Baltimore) 28 Nov. 8/2 Civilian air defense comes as second nature to them. 1954 T. S. Eliot Confidential Clerk iii. 96 I do feel more at ease when I'm behind a desk: It's second nature. 1967 R. Singha & R. Massey Indian Dances xviii. 159 They become second nature to her when she is dancing. < as lemmas |
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