But idiotically, I had used the end of part one as an opportunity to explain what "to be continued" meant.
不过好傻地,我曾拿第一部分结尾来给儿子解释什么叫“待续”。
In the 1960s and '70s, people who admitted to wanting to amount to something were put down as materialists idiotically wasting their lives in the "rat race."