A Successful Operation

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

一具死于公元前800年的埃及妇女木乃伊刚刚接受了一次手术。

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

这具木乃伊是谢芬姆特的，她曾是底比斯神庙里的一名歌手。

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As there were strange marks on the X-ray plates taken of the mummy,

由于对这具木乃伊X光片上有一些奇怪的印记，

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doctors have been trying to find out whether the woman died of a rare disease.

医生们一直在设法弄清这名妇女是否死于一种罕见的疾病。

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The only way to do this was to operate.

唯一的方法就是进行手术。

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The operation, which lasted for over four hours,

手术持续了四个多小时，

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proved to be very difficult because of the hard resin which covered the skin.

由于木乃伊的皮肤上覆盖着坚硬的树脂，手术做起来非常困难。

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The doctors removed a section of the mummy and sent it to a laboratory.

医生们取走了木乃伊的一小块，并把它送到了实验室。

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They also found something which the X-ray plates did not show: a small wax figure of the god Duamutef.

他们还发现了一些X光片上没有显示出来的东西：一个小的、蜡制的杜穆特夫神像。

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

这个长着牛头的神像通常被放置在木乃伊里面。

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The doctors have not yet decided how the woman died.

医生们尚未确定这名妇女是如何死亡的。

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They feared that the mummy would fall to pieces when they cut it open,

他们担心当他们切开木乃伊时，它会碎裂，

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but fortunately this has not happened.

但幸运的是，这种情况并没有发生。

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The mummy successfully survived the operation.

这具木乃伊成功地经受住了这次手术。