Indonesian–English parallel text
Masalah Sel 13
The Problem of Cell 13
Jacques Futrelle
A bilingual Indonesian–English edition: the Indonesian text with the English beside it, paragraph by paragraph.
Opening the reader…
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Hampir semua huruf yang tersisa dalam alfabet setelah Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen diberi nama kemudian diperoleh oleh tuan ini selama karier ilmiahnya yang gemilang. Karena diperoleh dengan terhormat, huruf-huruf itu ditambahkan di belakang namanya. Maka namanya, bersama semua gelar yang menyertainya, menjadi bangunan yang sangat mengesankan. Ia seorang Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S., M.D., dan M.D.S. Ia juga memiliki beberapa gelar lain, yang ia sendiri tidak tahu persis apa saja, karena kemampuannya diakui oleh berbagai lembaga pendidikan dan ilmiah di luar negeri.
Practically all those letters remaining in the alphabet after Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen was named were afterward acquired by that gentleman in the course of a brilliant scientific career, and, being honorably acquired, were tacked on to the other end. His name, therefore, taken with all that belonged to it, was a wonderfully imposing structure. He was a Ph.D., an LL.D., an F.R.S., an M.D., and an M.D.S. He was also some other things—just what he himself couldn’t say—through recognition of his ability by various foreign educational and scientific institutions.
Penampilannya sama mencolok dengan namanya. Tubuhnya kurus, dengan bahu tipis yang membungkuk seperti seorang pelajar, dan wajahnya yang bercukur bersih pucat karena hidup tertutup dan banyak duduk. Matanya selalu menyipit dengan kesan menyeramkan, seperti mata orang yang mempelajari hal-hal kecil. Kalau matanya terlihat sama sekali melalui kacamatanya yang tebal, matanya hanya berupa celah sempit berwarna biru berair. Namun di atas matanya terdapat ciri yang paling mencolok: dahi yang tinggi dan lebar, hampir tidak wajar tinggi dan lebarnya, dengan rambut kuning yang lebat dan berantakan di atasnya. Semua ini membuat kepribadiannya tampak aneh, nyaris menggelikan.
In appearance he was no less striking than in nomenclature. He was slender with the droop of the student in his thin shoulders and the pallor of a close, sedentary life on his clean-shaven face. His eyes wore a perpetual, forbidding squint—the squint of a man who studies little things—and when they could be seen at all through his thick spectacles, were mere slits of watery blue. But above his eyes was his most striking feature. This was a tall, broad brow, almost abnormal in height and width, crowned by a heavy shock of bushy, yellow hair. All these things conspired to give him a peculiar, almost grotesque, personality.
Profesor Van Dusen masih punya garis keturunan Jerman yang jauh. Selama beberapa generasi, leluhurnya terkenal di bidang ilmu pengetahuan; ia adalah hasil yang logis, sang jenius. Pertama dan terutama, ia seorang ahli logika. Setidaknya tiga puluh lima tahun dari hidupnya yang sudah sekitar setengah abad itu ia curahkan sepenuhnya untuk membuktikan bahwa dua tambah dua selalu sama dengan empat, kecuali dalam kasus yang tidak biasa, ketika hasilnya tiga atau lima, tergantung kasusnya. Ia berpegang pada dalil umum bahwa segala sesuatu yang bermula pasti menuju ke suatu tempat, dan ia mampu mengerahkan kekuatan pikiran para leluhurnya pada masalah apa pun. Sebagai catatan tambahan, Profesor Van Dusen memakai topi nomor 8.
Professor Van Dusen was remotely German. For generations his ancestors had been noted in the sciences; he was the logical result, the master mind. First and above all he was a logician. At least thirty-five years of the half-century or so of his existence had been devoted exclusively to proving that two and two always equal four, except in unusual cases, where they equal three or five, as the case may be. He stood broadly on the general proposition that all things that start must go somewhere, and was able to bring the concentrated mental force of his forefathers to bear on a given problem. Incidentally it may be remarked that Professor Van Dusen wore a No. 8 hat.
Masyarakat luas hanya samar-samar mengenal Profesor Van Dusen sebagai Mesin Pemikir. Julukan itu berasal dari koran, saat ia tampil luar biasa dalam permainan catur. Waktu itu ia membuktikan bahwa orang yang belum pernah bermain catur dapat, dengan kekuatan logika yang tak terelakkan, mengalahkan juara yang seumur hidup mempelajari permainan itu. Mesin Pemikir! Mungkin julukan itu menggambarkannya lebih tepat daripada semua singkatan gelar kehormatannya, sebab ia menghabiskan minggu demi minggu, bulan demi bulan, dalam kesunyian laboratoriumnya yang kecil. Dari sana lahir pemikiran yang mengejutkan rekan-rekan ilmuwannya dan sangat menggugah dunia.
The world at large had heard vaguely of Professor Van Dusen as The Thinking Machine. It was a newspaper catch-phrase applied to him at the time of a remarkable exhibition at chess; he had demonstrated then that a stranger to the game might, by the force of inevitable logic, defeat a champion who had devoted a lifetime to its study. The Thinking Machine! Perhaps that more nearly described him than all his honorary initials, for he spent week after week, month after month, in the seclusion of his small laboratory from which had gone forth thoughts that staggered scientific associates and deeply stirred the world at large.
Mesin Pemikir hanya sesekali menerima tamu, dan biasanya mereka adalah orang-orang yang sendiri berkedudukan tinggi dalam ilmu pengetahuan, yang datang untuk berdebat tentang suatu hal dan mungkin untuk meyakinkan diri sendiri. Dua di antara mereka, Dr. Charles Ransome dan Alfred Fielding, datang pada suatu malam untuk membahas sebuah teori yang tidak penting di sini.
It was only occasionally that The Thinking Machine had visitors, and these were usually men who, themselves high in the sciences, dropped in to argue a point and perhaps convince themselves. Two of these men, Dr. Charles Ransome and Alfred Fielding, called one evening to discuss some theory which is not of consequence here.
“Hal seperti itu mustahil,” kata Dr. Ransome dengan tegas dalam percakapan itu.
“Such a thing is impossible,” declared Dr. Ransome emphatically, in the course of the conversation.
“Tidak ada yang mustahil,” kata Mesin Pemikir dengan penekanan yang sama. Ia selalu berbicara dengan nada kesal. “Pikiran adalah penguasa segala sesuatu. Kalau ilmu pengetahuan sudah sepenuhnya mengakui hal itu, kemajuan besar akan tercapai.”
“Nothing is impossible,” declared The Thinking Machine with equal emphasis. He always spoke petulantly. “The mind is master of all things. When science fully recognizes that fact a great advance will have been made.”
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