But things don't look as bad as they looked 3 or 5 years back.

但与3或5年前比起来,情况已经缓和很多。

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But anyway, the confederate that they hired was a woman who was naturally attractive in most people's view but they made her look either more attractive or less attractive by giving her kind of frumpy clothes, bad make-up, and a frizzy wig.

不管怎么说，他们请的这个助手,在大多数人眼中亭亭玉立,他们可以把她包装得更漂亮,或打扮成丑女无敌,让她穿些邋遢的衣服，失败的妆容还带上卷曲的假发。

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