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  • 1 К-4

    КАЖДОМУ СВОЁ (sent Invar fixed WO
    each person has his own fate, purpose in life, as well as his own concerns, gifts, tastes etc
    to each his own
    (in limited contexts) everybody is different it's a matter of taste each to his own taste.
    ...Ирина Викторовна вообще не боялась никаких на свете машин, не испытывала страха от того, что роботы могут вытеснить человека из жизни или стихийно взбунтоваться, как об этом написано у многих довольно умных, но теперь уже не оригинальных авторов... Пустяки! Каждому свое, машине - машинное, человеку - человеческое (Залыгин 1). There was no machine in the world that held any terrors for her (Irina Viktorovna), and she never feared that robots might displace humans or spontaneously revolt, as so many clever but no longer original writers had suggested. What nonsense that was! To each his own —the mechanical to the machine, the human to the human (1a)
    В них (стихах, написанных сознательным способом,) исчезает чудо стихотворчества, но они нравятся неискушенному читателю, потому что в них наличествует элемент пересказа, готовой мысли. Мне такие стихи не нужны. Каждому - своё (Мандельштам 2). Such verse (written in premeditated fashion), though lacking the miraculous quality of spontaneous creation, always appeals to the unschooled reader because it "tells a story" or conveys a ready-made idea. I can do without this kind of verse. Its a matter of taste (2a)
    Loan translation of the Latin suum cuique.

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  • 2 каждому свое

    [sent; Invar; fixed WO]
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    ⇒ each person has his own fate, purpose in life, as well as his own concerns, gifts, tastes etc:
    - [in limited contexts] everybody is different;
    - each to his own taste.
         ♦...Ирина Викторовна вообще не боялась никаких на свете машин, не испытывала страха от того, что роботы могут вытеснить человека из жизни или стихийно взбунтоваться, как об этом написано у многих довольно умных, но теперь уже не оригинальных авторов... Пустяки! Каждому свое, машине - машинное, человеку - человеческое (Залыгин 1). There was no machine in the world that held any terrors for her [Irina Viktorovna], and she never feared that robots might displace humans or spontaneously revolt, as so many clever but no longer original writers had suggested. What nonsense that was! To each his own - the mechanical to the machine, the human to the human (1a) Ф В них [стихах, написанных сознательным способом,! исчезает чудо стихотворчества, но они нравятся неискушенному читателю, потому что в них наличествует элемент пересказа, готовой мысли. Мне такие стихи не нужны. Каждому - своё (Мандельштам 2). Such verse [written in premeditated fashion], though lacking the miraculous quality of spontaneous creation, always appeals to the unschooled reader because it "tells a story" or conveys a ready-made idea. I can do without this kind of verse. Its a matter of taste (2a)
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    ← Loan translation of the Latin suum cuique.

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