2026年考研英语一阅读 Text 3 原文翻译及答案解析
本页收录2026年考研英语一阅读理解 Part A 第 3 篇的原文、全文翻译与逐题解析。Part A 共 4 篇、20 题、40 分，是考研英语分值最高的部分，题型以细节题、推断题、主旨题与词义题为主。
The pioneers of wireless saw it as a gift to all the people. Sir John Reith said that it would end “isolation of the spirit” and rejoiced: “It does not matter how many thousands may be listening, there is always enough for others… the genius and the fool, the wealthy and the poor listen simultaneously.”
无线先驱们视其为给所有人的礼物。约翰·里思爵士曾说它将结束“精神孤立”，并欣喜地表示：“无论有多少人在收听，总有足够供他人享用……天才与愚者、富人与穷人同时倾听。”
Between two great wars this technological innovation built a new kind of national consciousness. Opening this week, a book and exhibition curated by Beatty Rubens at the Bodleian in Oxford records how radio changed everyday life from 1922 to 1939. She draws on letters, diaries and fiction, and a 1939 field notebook of verbatim audience research by Winifred Gill.
在两次大战之间，这项技术创新塑造了一种新的国家意识。本周在牛津大学博德利图书馆开幕的一本书和展览，由贝蒂·鲁本斯策划，记录了无线电广播如何在1922年至1939年间改变了日常生活。她利用了信件、日记、小说，以及温妮弗雷德·吉尔在1939年进行的一份逐字记录观众研究的实地笔记本。
There's fun in testimonies of people enjoying the sheer newness. A cartoon mocks a group failing to converse because they're all in headphones. People report that broad music made workmen whistle new tunes. A woman says there have been fewer street fights since the arrival of the wireless but also less stopping and “talking on the brush handle”.
人们享受这种崭新事物的证词中充满乐趣。一幅漫画嘲讽了一群因都戴着耳机而无法交谈的人。人们报告说，广泛的音乐让工人们吹起了新曲调。一位女性说，自从无线电广播到来，街头斗殴减少了，但停下脚步和“拿着扫帚柄聊天”的情况也少了。
By and large the wireless was welcome. I loved the man from the Thirties research who found that wireless suddenly offered “a lot of variety … things I thought I'd never be interested in… ice hockey, perhaps”. True: for more than 80 pre-digital years, linear speech broadcasting brought the gift of serendipity, random enlivening of a car journey or dull manual task. In my own book about radio I recorded how, on one drive: “I caught up with the news, learnt some 17th-century history, and was startlingly educated by an unpretentious programme on the history of the stethoscope.”
总的来说，无线电广播是受欢迎的。我喜欢30年代研究中的那个男人，他发现无线电广播突然提供了“很多种类……我原以为永远不会感兴趣的事情……比如冰球”。确实：在数字时代之前的80多年里，线性语音广播带来了意外发现的礼物，为汽车旅程或枯燥的手工任务增添了随机乐趣。在我自己关于广播的书中，我记录了在一次开车时的经历：“我了解了新闻，学了一些17世纪的历史，并被一个关于听诊器历史的朴实节目所震撼地教育了。”
But radio's enriching serendipity is ebbing. With multiple networks and countless podcasts, a smartphone user selects what to hear and when. And while it is wonderful to take a walk with anything in your headphones, infinite choice encourages us to shrink into niche interests and sympathetic beliefs.
但广播那丰富多元的意外发现正在减弱。随着多个网络和无数播客的出现，智能手机用户可以选择听什么和何时听。尽管戴着耳机边走边听任何内容都很美妙，但无限的选择鼓励我们退缩到小众兴趣和共鸣信念中。