radio

Compared meaning: a radio, a device that receives broadcasts (noun).

比较义项：收音机（名词，能接收广播的设备）。

• radio 本词

  The standard, neutral term for the device in both American and British English; used in everyday phrases like 'car radio' or 'listen to the radio' with no old-fashioned feel.

  美式和英式英语中通用的标准说法，用于“car radio（车载收音机）”“listen to the radio（听收音机）”等日常表达，没有老式的意味。

  The taxi driver had the radio on, playing the latest pop hits.

  出租车司机开着收音机，播放着最新的流行歌曲。

• wireless

  An old-fashioned, chiefly British term for a radio set, evoking earlier generations; sounds quaint or dated to most speakers today and is rarely heard in American English.

  主要用于英式英语中，是对收音机较老式、怀旧的称呼，会让人联想到上一辈人，如今听起来有些过时，在美式英语中很少使用。

  Grandpa still keeps an old wireless on the kitchen shelf and switches it on for the evening news.

  爷爷厨房的架子上还放着一台老式收音机，他每天晚上会打开它收听新闻。

Radio and wireless can both mean the device that plays broadcasts. Radio is the standard, neutral word. Wireless is old-fashioned and mainly British, sounds quaint, and is rare in American English. Wireless as an adjective, meaning 'without wires', is not compared here.

radio 和 wireless 在“收音机”这个意思上是近义词，但 wireless 是英式英语里较为老式、怀旧的说法，如今多让人联想到上一辈人，美式英语中几乎不用；radio 则是通用的标准词，不分年龄、不分英美都在用。这里不比较 wireless 作形容词表示“无线的，无线电的”的用法（如 wireless signal“无线信号”）。