另一回事

But it is one thing, to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off.

但节约成本、提高效率是一回事，偷工减料、砍掉时间是另一回事。

Learning is one thing and acquiring knowledge is another.

学习是一回事，而获得知识是另一回事。

In one's own sense of self,ambition is one pole and ideal is another.

在一个人的自我意识中，抱负是一回事，理想是另一回事。

A voluntary request is one thing; a "poll tax" is another.

自愿要求是一回事；一"人头税"则是另一回事。

That's quite another pair of shoes.

完全是另一回事。1。完全是另一回事。

Now, it's one thing to understand the reason for the people of one country being unfriendly toward the people of another, but it's quite adifferent thing to be the subject of that unfriendliness yourself.

知道一国的人为何对另一国的人不友好，这是一回事，亲身尝到这种不友好的滋味，却完全是另一回事。

Or to paste on to clumsy prose some old spangles of rhetoric, and it is quite another thing to be an accomplished musician or artist or writer.

或者在一篇粗制滥造的散文里贴上几句闪闪烁烁的陈词滥调是一回事；而要成为一个有成就的音乐家、画家或作家，却是另一回事。

It is one thing to strum on the piano, as you and I do, faking the left hand passages as we go along, or to daub a few patchy water colours, or to paste on to clumsy prose some old spangles of rhetoric, and it is quite a nother thing to be an accomplished musician or artist or writer.

而像你我这样，胡乱弹奏钢琴曲，同时还用左手插入即兴的过门，或者不管色彩是否协调，乱涂几笔蘸上水彩，或者在一篇粗制滥造的散文里贴上几句闪闪烁烁的陈词滥调是一回事；而要成为一个有成就的音乐家、画家或作家，却是另一回事。

It's one thing to see a family's stuff spread out in the front yard, but quite another to see a whole neighborhood's castoffs at one time.

看见一个家庭的东西摆在前院是一回事，但是一次看到一整个区的不用之物是另一回事。

Getting off the rollercoaster is one thing; being able to get on the next ride quite another.

从过山车上下来是一回事，而能够获得乘坐下一趟则是另一回事。

As she looked at Warrington's manly face, and dark, melancholy eyes, she had settled in her mind that he must have been the victim of an unhappy attachment.

每逢看到沃林顿那刚毅的脸，那乌黑、忧郁的眼睛，她便会相信，他一定作过不幸的爱情的受害者。

Maybe they'll disappear into a pothole.

也许他们将在壶穴里消失