But far beyond Joe and his inner circle, rank-and-file Democrats across the country worked to keep the ball rolling.

但是，除了乔和他的核心圈子之外，全国各地的普通民主党人都在努力让事情继续下去。

In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it “got boring, ” the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.

很多时候，读者因为一本书“太闷”而将它放到一边，这种“闷”的产生是因为作者为自己描述的力量着了迷，却看不到自己的第一要务，即推动故事发展。