Might all the societies of an entire continent be unreceptive, thereby explaining technology's slow pace of development there?

整个大陆的所有社会是否都法，从而解释技术发展缓慢的原因？

And it was he who convinced Mrs. Harding, who was at first unreceptive to the idea, that her husband should run.

正是他说服哈丁太太，她的丈夫应该参选，而哈丁太太起初并这个主意。

For something quite new lay waiting behind it all, which I was unable to see, because my head was crammed full of old things and my eyes were unreceptive.

因为在这一切的背后, 有某种全新的东西在等待着, 而我却法看到, 因为我的脑袋里塞满旧东西, 我的眼睛法。