Lily的Scalers Talk第八轮新概念朗读持续力训练Da

Lesson 77    A successful operation

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.

mummy  [ˈmʌmi] 木乃伊

 Thebes [θibz]

 X-ray plate  X光片

 rare  [rer] 稀有的;珍贵的;稀少的

disease [dɪˈziːz] 病;疾病;

 resin [ˈrezn] 树脂

section [ˈsekʃn] 部分;部门;部件

laboratory [ˈlæbrətɔːri] 实验室;

wax [wæks] 蜡;蜂蜡

 figure [ˈfɪɡjər] 人物;（远处人的）轮廓;身材;

又是一篇科普性质的文章，生词有点多，嗓子也没好，读起来气都不太顺。无论如何，2023年的第一天，继续保持学习的劲头很重要。