Lesson 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.

　　句子讲解：

　　1、The murainy 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。

　　2、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。

　　3、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.

　　由于给这个木乃伊拍摄的X光片子上有奇怪的斑点，所以，医生们一直试图搞清她是否死于一种罕见的疾病。

　　语言点 as在此引导原因状语从句;have been trying to find out表示过去到现在一直在找并且会继续找下去。