新概念英语第二册Lesson 77 A successful operation 课文讲义

新概念英语第二册第77课 Lesson77 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. New words and expressions生词和短语 mummy n.木乃伊Egyptian adj.埃及的temple n.庙 mark n.斑点plate n.(照相)底片disease n.疾病 last V.持续prove v.显示出resin n.树脂 skin n.皮肤section n.切片figure n.（人的)体形；人 像normally adv.通常地survive V.幸免于 参考译文 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。这是 曾在底比斯神殿里当过歌手的赛潘姆特的木乃伊。由于在给这个木乃伊拍 摄的X光片子上有点奇怪的斑点，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。搞清的唯一办法就是手术。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。医生们从木乃伊身上 取下一个切片，送去化验。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。这种牛头人身的神像通常被放在木乃伊体内。 医生们至今还未确定这位妇女的死因。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。这具木乃伊成功地经受了 这次手术。 课文解羅 1.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。 单词mummy指“木乃伊”，实际上就是干尸。古埃及人在人死后将其部分的 脑髓和全部内脏取出，再填入防腐的香料等，并捋其用细麻布从头到脚包 裹起来，外边再涂上树胶，做成木乃伊。古埃及人这么做是因为他们笃信 人死后，其灵魂不会消亡，仍会依附在尸体或雕像上。所以，埃及的法老（即 国王)死后均会制成木乃伊，作为对死者永生的企盼和缅怀。 2)B.C.是before Christ的缩略语，其字面含义为“在基督（诞生）之前"。 西方国家通行的公历纪年法（即公元）是以耶酥诞生之年作为纪年的开 始，即公元元年。那么在耶稣诞生之前就是公元前了。所以，800B.C 就是公元前800年。 3)句中的operation在这里指的是“手术”。have an operation意思是 “动了一次手术（或接受了一次手术）”。例如： Charles was at the clinic recovering from an op