London tried harder than Shanghai to keep the old phone booths alive because the red booths are a special scene in the city.

伦敦比上海更努力地保留老电话亭，因为红色电话亭是伦敦的一道特殊风景。

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I often think my old phone will make people laugh.

我经常认为我的老手机会惹人笑话。

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Rather than just lying in the drawer, your old phone will now serve a purpose.

现在你的手机不再静静地躺在你的抽屉里了，可能正在为某人服务呢。

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There's a phone in Buddy and Seymour's old room that is a private internal line, and it just goes from one room to another in the apartment; it's not an outside phone line.

在巴蒂和西莫的就房间里，有一台电话,有一个私人的内部线路，在公寓里的房间联通,不与外界相连。

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Large, old phone companies are hooked to shareholders who desire only reliable dividend checks.

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Meanwhile, the big, old phone companies used perfectly legal means to thwart co-location by the startups.

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Did anyone at the commission notice the sprouting array of new-tech rivals to the old phone companies?

FORBES: Filth and the FCC