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11th ProZ.com translation contest: "Contemporary society" » English to Arabic

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Source text in English

We're accustomed to glamour in London SE26: Kelly Brook and Jason Statham used to live above the dentist. But when Anouska Hempel's heels hit the cracked cement of the parking space outside my flat, it's hard not to think of those Picture Post photographs of royalty visiting bombed-out families during the second world war. Her mission in my modest tract of suburbia is, however, about more than offering sympathy. Hempel—the woman who invented the boutique hotel before it bore any such proprietary name—has come to give me information for which, judging by the spreads in interiors magazines and anxious postings on online DIY forums, half the property-owners in the Western world seem desperate: how to give an ordinary home the look and the vibe of a five-star, £750-a-night hotel suite. To Hem­pelise, in this case, a modest conversion flat formed from the middle slice of a three-storey Victorian semi.

"You could do it," she says, casting an eye around my kitchen. "Anyone could do it. Absolutely no reason why not. But there has to be continuity between the rooms. A single idea must be followed through." She looks out wistfully over the fire escape. "And you'd have to buy the house next door, of course." That's a joke. I think.

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It's worth pausing, though, to consider the oddness of this impulse. The hotel room is an amnesiac space. We would be troubled if it bore any sign of a previous occupant, particularly as many of us go to hotels in order to do things we would not do at home. We expect a hotel room to be cleaned as thoroughly as if a corpse had just been hauled from the bed. (In some cases, this will actually have happened.) The domestic interior embodies the opposite idea: it is a repository of memories. The story of its inhabitants ought to be there in the photos on the mantelpiece, the pictures on the wall, the books on the shelves. If hotel rooms were people, they would be smiling lobotomy patients or plausible psychopaths.

The winning entry has been announced in this pair.

There were 12 entries submitted in this pair during the submission phase, 3 of which were selected by peers to advance to the finals round. The winning entry was determined based on finals round voting by peers.

Competition in this pair is now closed.


Entries (12 total; 3 finalists) Expand all entries

Entry #13018 — Discuss 0
Abdallah Ali
Abdallah Ali
United Kingdom
Winner
Voting points1st2nd3rd
368 x42 x20
Rating typeOverallQualityAccuracy
Entry2.672.67 (3 ratings)2.67 (3 ratings)
Entry tagging:
  • 2 users entered 11 "like" tags
  • 3 users agreed with "likes" (9 total agrees)
  • 3 users disagreed with "likes" (5 total disagrees)
+2
يقطنان
Good term selection
Majed Jarrar
-1
1
الفنادق ذات الرفاهيّة المُتميّزة
Flows well
dina jamal
-1
+2
1
المُسمّى أي صفّة تجاريّة مُسجّلة
Flows well
Majed Jarrar
أمسّ الحاجة إليها
Flows well
dina jamal
والتساؤلات المتلهّفة
Flows well
dina jamal
مُصمَّم على الطراز الفكتور
Flows well
dina jamal
ولِمَ لا
Flows well
Majed Jarrar
-1
+1
1
شابها الوجوم
Good term selection
Majed Jarrar
+1
النزوة
Good term selection
Majed Jarrar
-2
+1
1
مكانٌ ليس به ما يدعو للذكريات
Flows well
Majed Jarrar
+2
ما كنّا لنفعلها في منازلنا
Flows well
Majed Jarrar
Entry #12919 — Discuss 0
Finalist
Voting points1st2nd3rd
345 x47 x20
Rating typeOverallQualityAccuracy
Entry2.002.00 (4 ratings)2.00 (4 ratings)
Entry tagging:
  • 2 users entered 6 "like" tags
  • 3 users agreed with "likes" (11 total agrees)
  • 3 users disagreed with "likes" (5 total disagrees)
-3
+1
2
فخامة القطاع 26 من جنوب شرق لندن
Flows well
dina jamal
-1
+3
1
تبادرت إلى ذهني
Flows well
Abdallah Ali
+1
كيفية إضفاء مظهر و جاذبية
Flows well
dina jamal
-1
+2
بإضفاء لمسة السيدة هيمبل
Good term selection
Abdallah Ali
+2
للنظر في غرابة هذه النزوة
Flows well
Abdallah Ali
+2
النزلاء
Flows well
dina jamal
Entry #12974 — Discuss 0
Finalist
Voting points1st2nd3rd
244 x408 x1
Rating typeOverallQualityAccuracy
Entry2.002.00 (4 ratings)2.00 (4 ratings)
Entry tagging:
  • 1 user entered 4 "like" tags
  • 2 users agreed with "likes" (5 total agrees)
  • 1 user disagreed with "likes" (1 total disagree)
+1
يلامس كعبا حذاء
Flows well
Abdallah Ali
+2
عدم استحضار الصور
Good term selection
Abdallah Ali
-1
+1
1
مجلة بيكتشر بوست
Good term selection
Abdallah Ali
+1
والاستفسارات المتلهفة
Flows well
Abdallah Ali


Non-finalist entries

The following entries were not selected by peers to advance to finals-round voting.

Entry #12506 — Discuss 0
Rating typeOverallQualityAccuracy
Entry1.671.67 (3 ratings)1.67 (3 ratings)
Entry tagging:
  • 1 user entered 1 "like" tag
  • 2 users agreed with "likes" (2 total agrees)
+2
هذه المنطقة المتواضعة من الحي الذي أسكن فيه
Flows well
Abdallah Ali
Entry #12992 — Discuss 0
Rating typeOverallQualityAccuracy
Entry1.671.67 (3 ratings)1.67 (3 ratings)
Entry tagging:
  • 2 users entered 3 "like" tags
  • 5 users agreed with "likes" (9 total agrees)
  • 1 user disagreed with "likes" (1 total disagree)
+5
1
ألفت أعيننا الجمال الساحر
Flows well
Abdallah Ali
-1
+2
1
تم التقاطها
Flows well
dina jamal
+2
يتهافت
Good term selection
Abdallah Ali
Entry #13423 — Discuss 0
Rating typeOverallQualityAccuracy
Entry1.671.67 (3 ratings)1.67 (3 ratings)
Entry tagging:
  • 2 users entered 2 "like" tags
  • 3 users agreed with "likes" (4 total agrees)
  • 1 user disagreed with "likes" (1 total disagree)
+3
حياة التألق
Flows well
Abdallah Ali
-1
+1
1
تم قصفها
Flows well
dina jamal
Entry #12896 — Discuss 0
Rating typeOverallQualityAccuracy
Entry1.501.67 (3 ratings)1.33 (3 ratings)
Entry tagging:
  • 2 users entered 5 "like" tags
  • 1 user agreed with "likes" (1 total agree)
  • 1 user disagreed with "likes" (2 total disagrees)
+1
طرق كعبا
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dina jamal
كان من الصعب عليَّ أن لا أفكر
Flows well
Abdallah Ali
مجلة بيكتشر بوست
Flows well
dina jamal
-1
1
ويستحق ذلك وقفة للنظر مطولا
Flows well
dina jamal
-1
1
كما لو أنَّ جثة قد سُحبت للتوِّ من السرير
Flows well
Abdallah Ali
Entry #13391 — Discuss 0
Rating typeOverallQualityAccuracy
Entry1.501.33 (3 ratings)1.67 (3 ratings)
Entry tagging:
  • 2 users entered 3 "like" tags
  • 1 user agreed with "likes" (1 total agree)
  • 1 user disagreed with "likes" (1 total disagree)
+1
الحياة البراقة
Good term selection
Majed Jarrar
الحياة البراقة
Flows well
dina jamal
-1
هذا التوجه
Flows well
dina jamal
Entry #13930 — Discuss 0
Rating typeOverallQualityAccuracy
Entry1.501.67 (3 ratings)1.33 (3 ratings)
Entry tagging:
  • 2 users entered 4 "like" tags
  • 3 users agreed with "likes" (4 total agrees)
  • 1 user disagreed with "likes" (1 total disagree)
-1
1
فكيلي بروك و جيسون ستاثام كانا يقطنان فوق طبيب الاسنان
Flows well
ahmedalmushrif
+1
كانا يقطنان
Flows well
Abdallah Ali
+2
يتوق لها نصف ملاك العقارات
Good term selection
ahmedalmushrif
+1
تلقي نظرة تواقة لسلم النجاة
Flows well
ahmedalmushrif
Entry #13970 — Discuss 0
Rating typeOverallQualityAccuracy
Entry1.381.75 (4 ratings)1.00 (3 ratings)
Entry tagging:
  • No "like" tags
Entry #12989 — Discuss 0
Rating typeOverallQualityAccuracy
Entry1.331.33 (3 ratings)1.33 (3 ratings)
Entry tagging:
  • 1 user entered 2 "like" tags
  • 1 user agreed with "likes" (1 total agree)
  • 1 user disagreed with "likes" (1 total disagree)
-1
1
"بكشر بوست
Flows well
dina jamal
+1
لو قُـدّر لغرف الفنادق أن تكون بشراً
Flows well
dina jamal
Entry #13858 — Discuss 0
Rating typeOverallQualityAccuracy
Entry1.171.33 (3 ratings)1.00 (3 ratings)
Entry tagging:
  • No "like" tags