熏陶成性
熏陶成性
xūn táo chéng xìng
(idiom) nurture makes second nature; good habits come by long assimilation
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- (idiom) (idiom) nurture makes second nature
- good habits come by long assimilation
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Related Words
十年树木，百年树人(shí nián shù mù , bǎi nián shù rén)— It takes ten years to nurture a tree, but a hundred years to train a man (idiom). A good education program takes a long time to develop.
→久病成良医(jiǔ bìng chéng liáng yī)— long illness makes the patient into a good doctor (idiom)
→一分为二(yī fēn wéi èr)— one divides into two
→近墨者黑(jìn mò zhě hēi)— proximity to pitch makes you black (idiom, from Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修|欧阳修); different environments provide different influence.
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