Poets begin their careers with easy pastoral poems, but Virgil's speaker says that he is more ambitious now.

这些诗人在职业生涯初期创作一些简单的田园诗，但是维吉尔的叙述者称说，他现在更有抱负了。

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He has taken it from one of the pastoral poems of Virgil.

他是从维吉尔的一首田园诗中借鉴的。

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Virgil would go on to be a great epic poet but not until after he had written these pastoral eclogues and then after that, after he had written the georgic poems, only then does he write finally the great epic poem The Aeneid.

他会成为一个伟大的史诗家,但这一直到他写出这些抒情诗之后,在那之后，在他完成了那些田园诗篇之后，直到那时他才最终完成了史诗。

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