Let us say that you are back in high school and you have a friend who has missed class for a week. He needs information to be spoonfed to him, because its not his style to overthink. If you push for the overly conceptual he'll get frustrated and push back.
The question is "What is a 95% confidence interval for a population mean?" Which would be the best explanation? If you have a better explanation, please share. Remember keep it simple but accurate and less vague:
"We are 95% confident that the population mean is between the lower and upper bounds."
"If repeated samples were taken and 95% confidence intervals were computed for each sample, 95% of the intervals would contain the population mean."
"The population mean lies between the 2 bounds since 95% of the time confidence intervals contain the true mean"