second nature

英语

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second nature (不可数)

1. 老习惯，习性
   • 1825, Sir Walter Scott, The Talisman, ch. 1:

     But habit had made the endurance of this load of panoply a second nature, both to the knight and his gallant charger.

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• 传统上前接不定冠词a，但现在多不带。