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Yoli
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Yoli asked in Society & CultureLanguages · 8 years ago

Could you translate this sentence into Japanese?

I would like to know how the famous saying, "The only thing we are afraid of is fear itself" would translate into Japanese. It would be great if the translator was Japanese or at least speaks/writes fluently.

Please use hiragana and kanji (and katakana, if needed) accordingly!

Thank you!

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  • 8 years ago
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    わたしたちが おそれるべき ゆいいつの ものは おそれること じたいです。

    FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT / FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS / March 4, 1933

    "So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

    まず初めに、 私がかたく信じていることを申し上げます。 私たちが恐れるべき 唯一のものは 恐れること自体なのです。 理不尽で 根拠がなく 名状し難い 恐怖感、 退却を前進へと転ずるために必要な 営みを止めてしまいます。

    mazu hajime ni, watashi ga kataku shinjiteiru koto wo moushi agemasu. watashi ga osorerubeki yuiitsu no mono wa osorerukoto jitai nanodesu. rifujin de konkyo ga naku meijou shigatai kyoufukan, taikyo wo zenshin eto tenzuru tame ni hitsuyou na itonami wo tomete shimaimasu.

    Fear of death is worse than death itself.

    死(し)への恐怖(きょうふ)は、死(し)そのものよりつらい。

    Source(s): a japanese
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