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分享一个知识点： Reader question: In this passage – If you don't like dogs, don't have the dog at your house. Tell the owner you won't dog sit. No, it's not normal to hate dogs, but to each his own – please explain “to each his own”? My comments: It means people are entitled to entertaining strange ideas^_^. The message in the above passage is this: It's not normal to hate dogs. In fact, most people don't but it's ok if you do hate dogs because we are all entitled to having our own, er, peculiar tastes. “To each his own” is a word for word translation from the Latin “suum cuique”, which is short for “suum cuique pulchrum est” (to each his own is beautiful), according to Wiktionary, a free dictionary online. In other words: According TO EACH person's subjective judgment, HIS OWN face, say, is most beautiful. HIS OWN girlfriend is the most beautiful woman in the world. HIS OWN bed is the best. Or HIS OWN pet cat instead is the cutest. Etc. and so forth. In short, each person has his own tastes and preferences, however strange, silly and peculiar they may sound to others. In other words, there's no accounting for taste. Which last saying, of course, merits a column in its own name. Anyways, here are a few recent media examples of “to each his own”: | 
