Because they usually arrived with no ready contacts and typically could not speak English, the contract period for full cost of passage was sometimes longer than for indentures, up to seven years.

但通常他们抵达时没有事先找好的联系人且特点是不会讲英语，因而所签订的支付全额运费的合同期限要比仆役契约期限长，高达七年。

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Shakespeare has expressed this idea more graphically in his passage about the seven stages of life, and a good many Chinese writers have said about the same thing.

莎翁在他的一段话中形象地阐述了人生分七个阶段的观点，很多中国作家也说过类似的话。

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