This is the national common appearance, in the past and nowadays, not only for her, but for the whole Chinese, especially the peasants in China.

这不仅是她，而且是整个中国国民尤其是中国农民，过去现在所具有的民族“共相”。

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Because I guess even nowadays people seem to think more rather than in the past, "oh, there's one person meant for me", but now there's a lot people that divorce and do this type of things.

因为我觉得现在人们不太像，过去那样以为有一个人是注定，要跟我在一起的，现在很多人，离婚或者这样那样。

youdao

Women nowadays have more freedom and rights than they had in the past.

现如今女性比过去有更多自由和权利。

youdao

It's rearing its head more and more, and it just means that conditions nowadays can never be quite like what they used to be in the past.

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