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单词 as natural as breathing
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as natural as breathing
g. as natural as breathing and variants: designating activities or circumstances which seem entirely natural or instinctive; second nature.
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1842 J. R. Lowell in U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. May 479 A spirit foreordained to cope with wrong, Whose divine thoughts are natural as breath.
1854 G. S. Weaver Hopes & Helps for Young of both Sexes viii. 124 Amusements are as natural as breath, and as universal as life.
1873 Appletons' Jrnl. 4 Oct. 433/1 The flighty French journalists and politicians, to whom this kind of amusement is as natural as breathing.
1929 R. M. Jones Trail of Life in College xii. 186 He has forever convinced me that it is as natural as breathing for a child to be religious.
1964 ‘S. Woods’ Trusted like Fox vi. 69 To mimic the other man's habit of quotation was as natural to him as breathing.
2001 Dallas Morning News (Electronic ed.) 27 Apr. And, here, on the front lines of free trade, speaking Spanish is as natural as breathing.
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