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.

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。

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.

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。