新概念英语第二册77

77 A successful operation 一例成功的手术 The mummy of an Egyptian woman who died in 800 B.C. has just had an operation. The mummy is that of Shepenmut who was once a singer in the Temple of Thebes. As there were strange marks on the X-ray plates taken of the mummy, doctors have been trying to find out whether the woman died of a rare disease. The only way to do this was to operate. The operation, which lasted for over four hours, proved to be very difficult because of the hard resin which covered the skin. The doctors removed a section of the mummy and sent it to a laboratory. They also found something which the X-ray plates did not show: a small wax figure of the god Duamutef. This god which has the head of a cow was normally placed inside a mummy. The doctors have not yet decided how the woman died. They feared that the mummy would fall to pieces when they cut it open, but fortunately this has not happened. The mummy successfully survived the operation. 一位埃及妇女的木乃伊死于公元前800年刚动过手术。这是赛潘姆特的木乃伊曾在底比斯的神庙的一位歌手。有点奇怪的是木乃伊拍摄的X光片子上，医生们一直试图搞清这位妇女是否死于一种罕见的疾病。这样做的唯一办法就是经营。经营，持续了四个多小时，非常难做，因为皮肤上覆盖着一层硬树脂。医生取出一块切片送到实验室。他们还发现了X光片所没有显示的：一个小蜡像的神杜米特夫。这个神，牛头人通常被放在木乃伊。医生们至今还未确定的女人死了。他们担心木乃伊会变成碎片时，他们把它打开，但幸运的是，这并没有发生。这具木乃伊成功地经受了。