歌词
--- Lesson 77 A successful operation
一例成功的手术
--- First listen and then answer the question.
^听录音，然后回答以下问题。
--- Did the doctors find out how the woman died?
The mummy of an Egyptian woman who died in 800 B.C. has just had an operation.
^死于公元前800年的一位埃及妇女的木乃伊刚刚接受了一次手术。
The mummy is that of Shepenmut who was once a singer in the Temple of Thebes.
^这是曾在底比斯神殿里当过歌手的赛潘姆特的木乃伊。
As there were strange marks on the X-ray plates taken of the mummy,
^由于在给这个木乃伊拍摄的X光片子上有点奇怪的斑点，
doctors have been trying to find out whether the woman died of a rare disease.
^所以，医生们一直试图搞清这位妇女是否死于一种罕见的疾病。
The only way to do this was to operate.
^搞清的唯一办法就是手术。
The operation, which lasted for over four hours, proved to be very difficult because of the hard resin which covered the skin.
^手术持续了4个多小时，非常难做，因为皮肤上覆盖着一层硬硬的树脂。
The doctors removed a section of the mummy and sent it to a laboratory.
^医生们从木乃伊身上取下一个切片，送去化验。
They also found something which the X-ray plates did not show: a small wax figure of the god Duamutef.
^他们还发现了X光片所没有显示的东西：一个蜡制的杜瓦木特夫神小塑像。
This god which has the head of a cow was normally placed inside a mummy.
^这种牛头人身的神像通常被放在木乃伊体内。
The doctors have not yet decided how the woman died.
^医生们至今还未确定这位妇女的死因。
They feared that the mummy would fall to pieces when they cut it open, but fortunately this has not happened.
^他们曾担心在把木乃伊切开后，它会散成碎片，但幸运得很，这种情况并未发生。
The mummy successfully survived the operation.
^这具木乃伊成功地经受了这次手术。
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