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English to Persian (Farsi): Part of a speech by David Foster Wallace General field: Social Sciences Detailed field: Education / Pedagogy
Source text - English There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning, boys, how's the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, “What the hell is water?”
If at this moment, you're worried that I plan to present myself here as the wise old fish explaining what water is to you younger fish, please don't be. I am not the wise old fish. The immediate point of the fish story is that the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are the hardest to see and talk about. Stated as an English sentence, of course,
this is just a banal platitude — but the fact is that, in the day-to-day
trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death
importance. That may sound like hyperbole or abstract nonsense.
Translation - Persian (Farsi) دو ماهی جوان داشتند کنار هم شنا می‌کردند که ناگهان به ماهی پیری برخوردند که داشت برخلاف جهت آن‌ها شنا می‌کرد. ماهی پیر سری تکان داد و گفت: «صبح بخیر بچه‌ها، به نظرتون آب چطوره؟» دو ماهی جوان کمی به راه خود ادامه دادند تا این‌که یکی‌شان به آن یکی نگاه کرد و گفت: «آب دیگه چه کوفتیه؟»
نگران نباشید. نمی‌خواهم خودم را آن ماهی پیر و دانا فرض کنم و برای شما ماهی‌های جوان بگویم که آب چیست. من آن ماهی پیر و دانا نیستم. نکته‌ای که در این داستان وجود داشت این بود که آشکارترین و فراگیرترین و مهم‌ترین حقایق، معمولا آن‌هایی هستند که دیدن و حرف زدن درباره‌شان از همه سخت‌تر است. البته این حرف کاملا حرفی کلیشه‌ای و پیش‌پاافتاده است. ممکن است به نظرتان مبالغه‌آمیز و انتزاعی و چرند بیاید، اما در حقیقت، در زندگی افراد بزرگسال، همین کلیشه‌های پیش‌پاافتاده اهمیت بسیار زیادی پیدا می‌کنند.
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My professional background is in English literature and I enjoy reading a variety of other subjects, including cinema, social sciences, and computer technology, especially SEO.
I have professional translation experience in the literature and cinema fields, and have been working in these two fields for the past 7 years.
Also, I have publishhed 6 books up to now, three of which are literary ones and the other three are cinematic books.
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