now times have changed;no comparison between past and present; the past cannot be compared with the present ❍ 生欲与偕归,女曰: “妾~,不可以尘情染,后当复见耳。”《聊斋志异·胡四姐》204) Sheng wished her to return home with him;to which she replied,“I am no longer what I was that I should mingle in the affairs of mortals. We shall meet again.”/姑老爷~,…… (《儒林外史》47)Now my honourable son-in-law is not the man he was.
今非昔比jin fei xi bi
the past cannot be compared with the present
今非昔比
The past cannot be compared with the present;There is no comparison between past and present.
今非昔比jīn fēi xī bǐ
现在不是过去所能比得上的。形容现在变化很大。the present cannot compare with the past, no comparison between past and present, no longer what it was before