Despite their decline in Numbers in recent years, the red telephone box regularly tops polls as one of Britain's most iconic structures.

尽管红色电话亭近年来不断减少，但时常获评英国最具象征性建筑。

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Suddenly I felt like a Red Indian defending the use of good old smoke signals against the advance of the telephone.

突然我感觉自己像一个北美印第安人为古老的烽火信号辩护而拒绝使用先进的电话。

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A telephone inside the execution chamber rings and the red light on faceplate blinks furiously.

行刑室中的电话突然响起，拨号面板上的红灯不断闪亮。

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Speaking by telephone from Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia, he told VOA this staggering amount of money allowed the Red Cross to undertake the biggest permanent housing program in its history.

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Admittedly, London's dwindling fleet of old-fashioned double-decker red Routemaster buses, like the black taxis and old red telephone boxes, are a distinctive and attractive feature of the city's landscape.

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Google added a feature to its U.S. search engine in April 2010 that displays a picture of a red telephone and the phone number for the lifeline when people are searching for suicide-related topics.

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For the occasional phone call, we found classic red British telephone booths and assembled three of them along one wall.

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