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What does This generation was to be envied as they experienced all that young people would have wanted to at that time. mean?
What does This generation was to be envied as they experienced all that young people would have wanted to at that time. mean?
I don't know how to translate "was to be envied as"
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The sentence means that people at jealous of this generation because they have done or experienced things that younger people haven’t
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