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to account for taste(s)

= to account for preference(s) искать, давать рациональное объяснение симпатиям и антипатиям

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'H'm!' said Torpenhow, 'can't say I care for Verestchagin-and-water myself, but there's no accounting for tastes.
— Хм! — промычал Торпенгоу. — Не могу сказать, чтобы я был большим поклонником Верещагина, но о вкусах не спорят.
Kipling, Joseph Rudyard / The Light That FailedКиплинг, Джозеф Редьярд / Свет погас
Свет погас
Киплинг, Джозеф Редьярд
© "Издательство П. П. Сойкина", 1915
The Light That Failed
Kipling, Joseph Rudyard
© 2011 by Victorian Secrets
'There is no accounting,' said good Miss Peecher with a little sad sigh which she repressed by laying her hand on her neat methodical boddice, 'there is no accounting for tastes, Mary Anne.'
- О вкусах не спорят, - сказала мисс Пичер и, положив руку на корсаж своего скромного платья, подавила грустный вздох. - О вкусах не спорят, Мэри-Энн.
Dickens, Charles / Our Mutual FriendДиккенс, Чарльз / Наш общий друг
Наш общий друг
Диккенс, Чарльз
© Государственное издательство художественной литературы, 1960
Our Mutual Friend
Dickens, Charles
© Wordsworth Editions Limited 1997

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account for tastes
искать, давать рациональное объяснение симпатиям и антипатиямExamples

One cannot account for tastes. / There's no accounting for taste. — О вкусах не спорят.
Have you seen the man she married? It shows that there's no accounting for preferences. — Ты видела, за кого она вышла замуж? Вот уж поистине: любовь зла, полюбишь и козла.

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