What with one thing and another, it was fairly late in the day when we got home.

由于种种原因，我们回到家时已经相当晚了。

What with one thing and another, I totally forgot your birthday.

非常对不起，昨天杂事一箩筐，居然把你的生日给忘了。

What with one thing and another, I forgot to tell you we couldn't come.

因事情很多， 弄得我忘记告诉你我们不能来了。

What with one thing and another, the poor chap has too much to contend with.

一桩桩一件件的不接踵而来，那可怜的家伙委实够受的了。

What with one thing and another, everybody forgot all about the eels in the urn.

出于这个那个的原因，所有人都把瓮里的鳗鱼忘掉了。

This is where one boss tells you to do one thing and another tells you to do something else. Infuriating. This was most associated with gastrointestinal problems.

有的时候，你的老板会叫你去干一件什么活儿，而其他的人又需要你去干另外的什么活儿，这种情况相当让人恼火，常常会导致肠胃问题。

Getting around a city is one thing—and then there's the matter of getting from one city to another.

在一个城市里游览是一码事，从一个城市到另一个城市又是另一码事。

"Just think of all the things you have to be thankful for" is another noise that says one thing and means another.

“想想所有你必须感谢的事情”这一说法又是另一句废话，它表面说的是一回事，表达的意思又是另外一回事。

He offered me a ride home one night, and, well, one thing led to another and now we're married!

一天晚上他让我搭车回家，唔，就这样自然发展，我们现在结婚了！

A number is one thing, and good luck is another.

数字是一回事，好运是另一回事。

We begin to see the interconnectedness of one thing to another in all aspects of our life, of ourselves and the universe.

我们开始看到在我们生活中的方方面面、我们自己以及宇宙中的一个事物与另一个事物的相互联系。

For him, it was one thing to accept his own fate of being blind and quite another to allow something to continue when it could be fixed so easily.

对他来说，接受自己失明的命运是一码事，而在可以如此容易解决的情况下还让事情继续存在，则完全是另一码事。

We have the advantage of switching from one thing to another, and you can say it's because 'I want to have kids', or' I want to spend more time with them ', or whatever.

我们很容易从一件事情上跳到另外一件事情上，你可以说是因为‘我想要孩子’，或者‘我想同孩子们多呆会儿，’或者其它托辞。

When you do something daily, one day leads to the next and one thing leads to another.

你每天做一点事，一天接着另一天，一件事通向另一件。

It will take a little while for you to get used to single-tasking, if you are used to jumping from one thing to another and back.

如果你习惯于从一件事跳到另一件事，然后又跳回来，那你可能需要一段时间才能适应单一作业。

Yet it is one thing for the process to survive under fire, and another for it actually to succeed.

但是，和平进程在炮火下生存下来是一回事，最终达成协定是另外一回事。

But it is one thing to announce spending cuts, and quite another to carry them out.

不过宣布开支缩减是一回事，真的实行又是另一回事。

A prominent Yemeni journalist, Nasser Arrabyee, says the opposition leaders are saying one thing in the street and another behind closed doors.

也门著名记者纳瑟•阿拉比说反对派领导现在大街上说一套，关起门就是另一套了。

In this case, it is one thing to have to search and replace one word, and another is to have to change a verb tense, which will require changing the whole text.

在这种情况下，一方面要搜索和替换一个字，另一方面就得改变动词的时态，这就需要改变整个文本。

No, I don't think they are. I think marriage and the church is one thing and marriage and the state are another.

不，我认为他们不是，我想婚姻和，教堂是一回事，婚姻和，州则是另一回事。

It is one thing to be hurt, and quite another to be moved.

伤害是一件事，摇动又是一件事。

And if SaaS is one thing, Clouded Infrastructure is another thing.

如果SaaS是一回事，那么云计算基础架构就是另一回事。

Some of Mr Abbas's critics are calling for him to step down; many of them castigate him and his team for saying one thing in public and another in private.

阿巴斯（Mr Abbas）的一些批评者已经要求他下台，他们当中的很多人批评阿巴斯（Mr Abbas）和他的团队在公开场合中说一套在私下里却做另一套。

It is one thing after another and another.

一件事接着另一件再接着又一件。

At the start, I did just one thing, and then another.

在刚开始的时候，我只做了一件事，然后再是其他的。

Work is one thing and play is another.

工作是一回事，游玩又是另一回事。

In the case of spam, I think it's a great illustration, where you try to do one thing, and you push that to another country.

从垃圾邮件的案例里，我认为这是个最好的说明，你试着做某件事，并将他推广给其他国家。