亭字的意思

他沿山坡飞驰下来，撞在了一个电话亭上。

He came barreling down the hill and smashed into a phone booth.

我在酒吧入口附近的一个公用电话亭给她打了电话。

I called her from a public phone booth near the entrance to the bar.

在新加坡，每辆轿车上都装有一台在通过时自动触发过路收费亭的数字式异频雷达收发机。

In Singapore, every car is fitted with a digital transponder that triggers automatic tollbooths as it passes.

圣保罗将100名艺术家与100个电话亭配对。

Sao Paulo paired 100 artists with 100 phone booths.

近年来，伦敦想出了许多办法来使电话亭一直有用。

In recent years London has up with many ideas to help phone booths stay useful.

英国公司英国电信在一些电话亭增设了屏幕和免费无线网络。

The UK company British Telecom has added screens and free WiFi to some booths.

霓虹灯之于香港就相当于红色电话亭之于伦敦，雾之于旧金山。

Neon is to Hong Kong as red phone booths are to London and fog is to San Francisco.

离开电话亭后，我回到一所寂静的房子，三间卧室的门紧闭着。

When I left the phone booth, I went back to a silent house with three closed bedroom doors.

今天，几乎每个人都有一个智能电话，电话亭已经过时了，似乎是无用的。

Today almost everyone has a smart phone, booths are out of date and seem to be useless.

自2009年以来，超过1500个电话亭被改造成了花店、迷你咖啡馆、艺术博物馆，甚至是淋浴间。

Since 2009, more than 1,500 phone booths have been turned into flower shops, mini cafes, art museums and even shower rooms.

伦敦更关心它们，因为从20世纪30年代起，红色电话亭就一直是伦敦的一个特殊场景，当时它们都被漆成红色。

London cares about them even more, because the red booths have long been a special scene in London since the 1930s when they were painted all red.

我在拐角处的电话亭打电话给他。

I called him from the phone box on the corner.

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。

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

这100位艺术家每人都改变了一个电话亭的外观。

Each of the 100 artists changed the appearance of one phone booth.

用户可以在线搜索地图和天气预报，还可以在电话亭内使用WiFi。

Users can search for maps and weather reports online and use WiFi in the booths.

电话亭曾是英国许多街道上的重要一员，但随着手机的兴起，电话亭于20世纪80年代开始消失，绝大部分被丢至废品场。

After becoming an important part of many British streets, the phone boxes began disappearing in the 1980s, with the rise of the mobile phone sending most of them away to the junkyards.

英格利斯说：“电话亭让人想起了发明创造经久耐用的年代。”

Inglis said phone boxes called to mind an age when things were built to last.

他说，其中一个电话亭每月的收入约为1.35万美元，而租金仅为400美元左右。

He said that one of the boxes generated around $13,500 in revenue a month and cost only about $400 to rent.

在1926年，最初带有圆形屋顶的铁制电话亭首次出现。它们是由伦敦巴特西发电站的建筑师贾尔斯·吉尔伯特·斯科特设计的。

The original iron boxes with the round roofs first appeared in 1926. They were designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect of the Battersea Power Station in London.

其他人也把目光投向电话亭，并从中看到了商机。

Others also looked at the phone boxes and saw business opportunities.

我冲进一家报刊亭，带着强烈的羞耻感买下了我的第一包万宝路。

I popped into a newsagent's and bought my inaugural pack of Marlboros with a burning sense of shame.

在广告牌、报刊亭和公交候车亭上打广告，是让忙碌的消费者了解产品的有效方式。

Using billboards, newsstands, and bus shelters for advertising is an effective way of reaching these on-the-go consumers.

在农村地区，救护车要花相当长的时间才能到达，电话亭就起到了拯救生命的作用。

In rural areas, where ambulances can take a relatively long time to arrive, the phone boxes have taken on a lifesaving role.

大约在那个时候，托尼·英格利斯的工程和运输公司得到了一份工作，把电话亭从街上搬走并卖掉。

About that time, Tony Inglis' engineering and transport company got the job to remove phone boxes from the streets and sell them out.

先是被科技的进步打败，最近又被垃圾场的糟糕天气打败，代表一个时代的电话亭现在又有了回归的迹象。

Beaten first by the march of technology and lately by the terrible weather in junkyards, the phone boxes representative of an age are now making something of a comeback.

上周，维多利亚街上的报刊亭和礼品店都被人强行闯入，虽然金钱都没有被拿走，但这些商铺都遭受了严重的损失。

The newsagent and the gift shop on Victoria Street were both broken into last week, and although no money was taken, the properties have suffered some serious damage.

随着英格利斯和后来的其他商人开始工作，改装后的电话亭开始在城市和乡村重新出现，人们发现了它们的新用途。

As Inglis and, later other businessmen, got to work, repurposed phone boxes began reappearing in cities and villages as people found new uses for them.

对于许多英国人来说，这可以适用于代表他们国家过去年代的机构和物品，古老的城堡，辉煌的住宅和红色的电话亭。

For many British people, that can apply to institutions and objects that represent their country's past age old castles, splendid homes and red phone boxes.

英格利斯说，电话亭让人想起了东西可以持久耐用的年代。他说：“我喜欢他们对人们造成的影响，我也喜欢回忆他们。”

Inglis said phone boxes called to mind an age when things were built to last. "I like what they are to people, and I enjoy bringing things back," he said.

他忽闻有人在牡丹亭畔长吁短叹。

Suddenly he heard a rustle in the peony pavilion and someone sighing deeply.