The topics the dentist liked for the moment were amplitude modulation and frequency modulation.

目前牙医感兴趣的话题在调幅和调频。

So he and Republican Senator Ted Cruz introduced the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act.

因此，他和共和参议员特德·克鲁兹提出了《每辆车的调幅广播法案》。

But even if this legislation passes, AM radio could still lose its signal from other headwinds.

但即使这项立法获得通过，调幅广播仍可能因其他不利因素而失去信号。

Radio listenership may have remained steady over the last decade, but AM listenership has declined.

过去，广播收听率可能保持稳定，但调幅收听率却有所下降。

But Ed is pretty worried right now about AM radio.

但艾德现在非常担心调幅收音机。

Democrats and Republicans are banding together to save AM radio from becoming a relic of the past.

民主人和共和人正在联合起来，避免调幅收音机成为历史。

The legislation would compel the Department of Transportation to require automakers to keep AM radios in their vehicles at no additional cost.

该立法将迫使交通部要求汽车制造商在其车辆安装调幅收音机，而付额外费用。

AM radio is not only deeply embedded in American life, he's arguing, but it's vital to the national interest.

他认为，调幅广播不仅深深植根于美国人的生活，而且对国家利益也至关重要。

In a survey, Ed found eight automakers, including Mazda, BMW, Volkswagen, Volvo and Tesla, had already stopped putting AM radios in their EVs.

在一项调查，埃德发现马自达、宝马、大众、沃尔沃和特斯拉等八家汽车制造商已经停止在其电动汽车安装调幅收音机。

Those things can help us pay less attention to our music, but the thing that helps us focus might be something called Amplitude Modulation.

这些东西可以帮助我们减少对音乐的关注，但帮助我们集注意力的可能是调幅。

AM radio was crucial after Superstorm Sandy in 2012. So AM Radio is there in hurricanes, in blackouts, in snowstorms, in floods.

在 2012 超级风暴桑迪之后，调幅广播发挥了至关重要的作用。因此，调幅广播在飓风、停电、暴风雪和洪水都存在。

Seema says it's not like the government is insisting every American have an AM radio in their house during an emergency.

西玛表示，政府并没有坚持要求每个美国人在紧急情况下家里都有调幅收音机。

Delivering emergency broadcasts is a public good, but is the best way to do that making cars carry AM radios in them?

提供紧急广播是一项公共利益，但让汽车配备调幅收音机的最佳方法是什么呢？

And to answer your question honestly, I have not listened to AM radio in the car since it was on when my dad was driving me around.

老实说，我没有在车里听过调幅广播，自从我爸爸开车带我到处走动时就开着调幅广播。

I have to say, this is not the screechy talk radio that maybe some people think of when they think of AM radio.

我不得不说，这不是一些人想到调幅广播时可能想到的那种尖利的谈话广播。

When some automakers confirmed this year that they were planning to phase out AM radio in their electric vehicles, the political backlash was immediate and remarkably bipartisan.

当一些汽车制造商今确认他们计划逐步淘汰电动汽车的调幅收音机时，立即引起了两的政治强烈反对。

I was chomping at the bit and I was a bit concerned, but we never took it to 100%, you know, the most we take any of the emotional scenes was 70, 80%.

我当时有点气急败坏，有点担心，但我们从来没有把它调到 100%，你知道，我们对任何情感场景的调幅最多是 70%、80%。

But if car technology has changed so AM radios are more challenging, you know, maybe we need to have a different way of making sure everybody is going to hear those AM broadcasts in those emergencies.

但如果汽车技术发生了变化，调幅收音机变得更具挑战性，你知道，也许我们要采取不同的方式来确保每个人在紧急情况下都能听到调幅广播。