新概念英語第二冊逐句精講語言點 第77課(3)

　　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：

　　8、This god which has the head of a cow was normally placed inside a mummy.

　　這種牛頭人身的神像通常被放在木乃伊體內(nèi)。

　　語言點 sth, be placed inside somewhere某物被放置在某個地方

　　9、The doctors have not yet decided how the woman died.

　　醫(yī)生們至今還沒能確定這位婦女的死因。

　　10、They feared that the mummy would fall to pieces when they cut it open, but fortunately this has not happened.

　　他們曾擔心在把木乃伊切開后，它會散成碎片，但很幸運，這種情況并未發(fā)生。

　　11、The mummy successfully survived the operation.

　　這具木乃伊成功地經(jīng)受了這次手術(shù)。