For instance, today's middle-aged Chinese women are the first to have obtained advanced degrees and to have come in contact with the women's liberation movement. They set high expectations for themselves, but their disappointments are likewise large.
例如這一代的中年女性，是第一代受過高等教育、而且多少接觸過「女性主義」自我實現思想的，因此她們對自己期許高、失望往往也大。