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Some of the UK's iconic red phone boxes are up for sale, giving communities a chance to turn them into something new.
BT, the company that owns the phone boxes, has been running its Adopt a Kiosk program since 2008. Phone boxes that are no longer in use are sold for about $1 to town councils or charities, which can turn them into anything they want, including coffee shops, information centers or libraries.
BT has already sold more than 6,600 phone boxes through the program, and it has 4,000 more for sale.
Red phone boxes started being used in the UK in 1926, with almost all of them in London at first. According to the BBC, there were 92,000 phone boxes across the UK by 1992 before mobile phones became popular.
"With most people now using mobile phones, it's led to a huge drop in the number of calls made from pay phones," said James Browne of BT. He said that the Adopt a Kiosk program allows communities to keep their local phone boxes, but turn them into something new.
In the village of Minety, a phone box was turned into a store selling flowers and vegetables grown by young children to raise money for their school.

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部分英國具有代表性的紅色電話亭目前出售中，而他們的存在，也給了社區將他們予以改造，賦予新生命的機會。
擁有這些電話亭的英國電信集團（BT）從2008年起實施「領養電話亭」企劃。 不再使用的電話亭以大約1美金的價格出售給鎮議會或慈善機構，而鎮議會和慈善機構則會將這些電話亭變成任何想要的形式，像是咖啡店、資訊中心或圖書館。

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iconic象徵性的, 代表性的
community社群, 社區, 社團
turn into變成, 成為
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