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。

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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。

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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。

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And he invited us to the festival and one thing lead to another.

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And I think of that front and back of the page as another kind of knight's move. You think you're looking at one thing, and you land on another.

这让我想到这页的开头和结尾都是一种迂回前进,你认为你正在看某样事物,事实上你在看另一个。

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So need is one thing and deserve is another.

所以需要是一回事，该不该得到是另一回事。

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At first Frankie walked around doing one thing and another.

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And the show, which will open on Broadway for the first time on Sunday, in a production starring Laura Osnes, has itself been repeatedly transformed from one thing into another and then another still.

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So it went, all morning and into the afternoon, Nawab trying one thing and then another, heating the pipes, cooling them, joining wires together, circumventing switches and fuses.

NEWYORKER: Nawabdin Electrician