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”。
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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."