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11th ProZ.com translation contest: "Contemporary society" » English to Persian (Farsi)

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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.

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Entry #14347 — Discuss 2
Winner
Voting points1st2nd3rd
6315 x41 x21 x1
Entry tagging:
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  • 5 users agreed with "likes" (11 total agrees)
  • 1 user disagreed with "likes" (4 total disagrees)
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به زرق و برق محله اس ای 26 لندن عادت کرده ایم
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Ehsan Alipour
عکس‌هایی از خاندان سلطنت که به دیدار خانواده‌های جنگ‌زده در جنگ جهانی دوم رفته‌‌اند
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Very good ​solution f​or such a ​long sente​nce
Neda Namvar Kohan
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1
خاندان سلطنت
Good term selection
Tahmineh Zardasht
+1
همپلیزه
Good term selection
Good coina​ge.
Tahmineh Zardasht
اما اتاق‌ها باید یکدست باشند
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khoshnoo
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1
هر ایده‌ای باید در همه آن‌ها پیاده شود
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Ehsan Alipour
+2
این دیگر شوخی بود. یعنی من اینطور فکر می‌کنم
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Ehsan Alipour
غرابت
Good term selection
khoshnoo
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+1
1
اگر نشانی از مهمان قبلی داشته باشد، معذب خواهیم شد
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The best t​ranslation​ of this s​ource sent​ence here.
Tahmineh Zardasht
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طوری که انگار نه انگار مثلاً جنازه‌ای را همین حالا از آنجا
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very natur​al Persian​. Like it.
Tahmineh Zardasht
در مورد فضای داخل خانه اما خلاف این نظر صدق می‌کند
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Fatemeh Taghian
Entry #13276 — Discuss 0
Voting points1st2nd3rd
132 x42 x21 x1
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خو گرفته‌ایم
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khoshnoo
اما مأموریت او در این ناحیهٔ محقر حومه شهری من چیزی فراتر از ابراز همدردی است.
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Fatemeh Taghian
حال‌وهوای
Good term selection
Zeynab Tajik
+1
1
کل طرح هم باید ایدهٔ واحدی داشته باشه
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Ehsan Alipour
Entry #14104 — Discuss 0
Voting points1st2nd3rd
92 x401 x1
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  • 4 users entered 6 "like" tags
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زرق و برق
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Shiva Bagherfard
غرابت
Good term selection
khoshnoo
اگر هر گونه نشانه اي از سكونت قبلي وجود داشته باشد ما با مشكل مواجه مي شويم
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mohamadd
ما انتظار داريم كه اتاق هتل به گونه اي تميز شده باشد كه حتي اگر جسدي از روي تختخواب به بيرون برده شده باشد ، مشخص نباش
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mohamadd
اين مكان گنجينه اي از خاطرات است.
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mohamadd
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اين مكان گنجينه اي از خاطرات است
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Ehsan Alipour
Entry #13487 — Discuss 0
Voting points1st2nd3rd
81 x41 x22 x1
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  • 4 users entered 15 "like" tags
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خو
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Shiva Bagherfard
و گرفته ایم:
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Shiva Bagherfard
ترک خورده
Good term selection
khoshnoo
می کوبند
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Shiva Bagherfard
اظهار احساس همدردی
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Shiva Bagherfard
جلوه و حال و هوای
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Shiva Bagherfard
"همپلی کردن"
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Shiva Bagherfard
هتل بوتیک سازی
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Shiva Bagherfard
نیم نگاهی
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Shiva Bagherfard
اما باید بین اتاق ها پیوستگی باشه
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Ehsan Alipour
شوخی باشه.
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Shiva Bagherfard
ال ارزشش را دارد
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Shiva Bagherfard
+1
بعضی مواقع، این مورد حقیقتاً رخ داده است
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Tahmineh Zardasht
گنجینه
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Shiva Bagherfard
لبخند به لب
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Shiva Bagherfard
Entry #14188 — Discuss 0
Voting points1st2nd3rd
61 x41 x20
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  • 4 users entered 5 "like" tags
میل ناخودآگاه
Good term selection
Tahmineh Zardasht
میل ناخودآگا
Good term selection
Fatemeh Taghian
لبخند بر لب
Good term selection
Zeynab Tajik
خند بر ل
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Ehsan Alipour
یماران روانی موجه ن
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Ehsan Alipour
Entry #14278 — Discuss 0
Voting points1st2nd3rd
301 x21 x1
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  • 3 users entered 3 "like" tags
  • 3 users agreed with "likes" (4 total agrees)
+2
همپلی کردن (تغییرات به سبک خانم همپل)
Good term selection
The best r​endering o​f "to Hemp​elise" amo​ng these t​ranslation​s.
Ahmad Hosseinzadeh
+2
فراموش خانه
Good term selection
فراموشخانه
Zeynab Tajik
گاهی چنین اتفاقی واقعاً رخ داده است
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khoshnoo