- 今非昔比
- jīnfēixībǐno comparison between past and present; the past cannot be compared with the present* * *jin1 fei1 xi1 bi3You can't compare the present with the past., Nothing is as good as in former times., Things ain't what they used to be.* * *今非昔比jīn fēi xī bǐToday we are no longer as we have been.; be no longer what one was; be not the man he was; no longer what it was before; The present cannot compare with the past.; Times change.* * *今非昔比|今非昔比 [jīn fēi xī bǐ] ► You can't compare the present with the past. ► Nothing is as good as in former times. ► Things ain't what they used to be.
Chinese-English dictionary. Academic. 2013.