there's no accounting for taste

释义

1. 人的爱憎好恶是无法解释的；人各有所好

   used to say how difficult it is to understand why sb likes sb / sth that you do not like at all

   She thinks he's wonderful — oh well, there's no accounting for taste.她认为他了不起。嗯，算了，人各有所好嘛。

电影里这样说 · 3 部

• There's no accounting for taste, is there?A Beautiful Mind2001
• Yeah, well, there ain't no accounting for taste.O Brother, Where Art Thou?2000
• Well, there's no accounting for tastes, you know.The Old Dark House1932

同一词条的短语

• by all accounts
• by your own account
• give a good account of yourself
• of no account
• on account
• on account
• on account of
• on no account
• on your own account
• on this account
• put to good account
• take account of