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

整个大陆所有社会否都无法接受，从而解释技术发展缓慢原？

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

他说服哈丁，丈夫应该参选，而哈丁起初并不接受这个主意。

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.

为在这一切背后, 有某种全新东西在等待着, 而我却无法看到, 为我脑袋里塞满旧东西, 我眼睛无法接受。