新概念英語第二冊逐句精講語言點 第77課(1)

　　Lesson 77 A successful operation 一例成功的手術(shù)

　　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.

　　句子講解：

　　1、The murainy of an Egyptian woman who died in 800 B.C. has just had an operation.

　　死于公元前800年的一位埃及婦女的木乃伊剛剛接受了一次手術(shù)。

　　2、The mummy is that of Shepenmut who was once a singer in the Temple of Thebes.

　　這是曾在底比斯神殿里當過歌手的賽潘姆特的木乃伊。

　　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.

　　由于給這個木乃伊拍攝的X光片子上有奇怪的斑點，所以，醫(yī)生們一直試圖搞清她是否死于一種罕見的疾病。

　　語言點 as在此引導(dǎo)原因狀語從句;have been trying to find out表示過去到現(xiàn)在一直在找并且會繼續(xù)找下去。