So many of us grew up with the emergency broadcast system, right?

我们很多人都是在紧急广播系统中长大的，对吧？

The city's emergency broadcast system, which was supposed to swing into action during a crisis, did not go on the air because the Sunday-morning staff did not know how to operate the equipment.

该市的紧急广播系统本应在危急时刻快速启用，但是没有出声，因为“星期天上午的工作人员不知道怎么操作这台设备”。

There's an asterisk here, though, because there's this distinction between the emergency broadcast system itself and the device for delivering it - this case, an AM radio in your car.

不过，这里有一个星号，因为紧急广播系统本身和传输它的设备之间存在区别 - 在本例中，是汽车中的 AM 收音机。