the seven ages of man
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- seven periods into which a human life can be divided, i.e. those of the baby, the child, the lover, the soldier, the middle-aged person, the old person, and second childhood. The seven ages are best known from the description of them in a speech by Jaques in Shakespeare's As You Like It which begins: “All the world's a stage,And all the men and women merely players.They have their exits and their entrances;And one man in his time plays many parts.”.
人的一生可分为七个时期，即婴儿期、儿童期、情人期、军人期、中年期、老年期、第二童年期。莎士比亚的《皆大欢喜》中雅克的一次演讲中对这七个时代的描述最为人所知，其开头是：“整个世界是一个舞台，所有的男人和女人都只是演员。他们有他们的出口和他们的入口；并且一个人在他的时代扮演着许多角色。”