English term
if we got an age
For years when I was young and in politics with all my hopes and dreams and ambitions, it seemed to me and to many of my contemporaries that ***if we got an age*** where we had good housing, good education, a reasonable standard of living, then everything would be set and we should have a fair and much easier future. We know now that that is not so. We are up against the real problems of human nature. Why is it that we have child cruelty in this age? Why is it that we have animal cruelty? Why is it that we have violence? … Why is it that people take to terrorism? Why is it that people take to drugs? These are much, much more difficult problems. … Why, when you have got everything, do some people turn to those fundamental things which undermine the whole of civilization?
| 2 +8 | if we got to a stage/era |
Robert Kleemaier
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| 4 +7 | if we were presented with |
Kim Metzger
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| 3 +1 | if we entered an era |
Anja Wulf (X)
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| 4 | if we achieved... a time |
Jack Dunwell
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if we got to a stage/era
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Bernhard Sulzer
: "if there is (was) an era // if we have(d)/live(ed)in/experience(d) an era" , maybe even "time"
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merci
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Egil Presttun
: if we had some years
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thx
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Gary D
: If we had a period of time in life where............ Age of Aquarious, the age of the dinosaur, the revolution age
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cheers
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Gunilla Zedigh
: i aso agree with gary -- a period of time in life...
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merci
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Suzan Hamer
: If we ever get to, arrive at, a time in which everyone has good housing, education, etc....
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tyvm
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Lalit Sati
16 hrs
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thx
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Sjoerd Evert Huisman (X)
18 hrs
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merci
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JaneTranslates
: Agree. And I like Gary D's way of expressing the idea.
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if we were presented with
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Note added at 10 mins (2009-03-06 19:14:10 GMT)
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Robert's right about age meaning era, time.
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Jim Tucker (X)
: yes - "get" here = be given, receive, or as you say "be presented with"; I see commenters below saying "arrived at" but that is not really possible for "get" without "to" ; the image here is receiving something by lot or by fate
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Sheila Wilson
: or "got" = arrived at
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Tina Vonhof (X)
: arrived at or achieved.
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Pham Huu Phuoc
9 hrs
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Suzan Hamer
: and with Tina and Sheila, if we ever achieved or arrived at such an age.
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Lalit Sati
17 hrs
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d_vachliot (X)
2 days 18 hrs
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if we entered an era
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