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Second nature

Writer: Li Dan  |  Editor: Lin Qiuying  |  From: Shenzhen Daily  |  Updated: 2024-07-09

A: I had to learn how to use a computer and a smartphone, because when I was a child, they didn’t exist.

B: I feel the same. However, for my son’s generation, using technology like this will be second nature. These kids have grown up with it.

Note: It refers to an intuitive, instinctive, or innate ability, habit, or trait usually achieved because one performs or practices a certain action very often or for a very long time. This expression is a shortened form of an ancient proverb, “custom is a second nature,” first recorded in 1390. It alludes to the fact that very frequently repeating something makes it seem completely natural or inborn.

"Second nature" refers to an intuitive, instinctive, or innate ability, habit, or trait usually achieved because one performs or practices a certain action very often or for a very long time.