伊卡莱姆的ScalersTalk第四轮新概念朗读持续力训练Day077 20181223

练习材料:

Lesson77 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.

应用配置：L0+L4

知识笔记：Egyptian/ɪˈʤɪpʃən     Shepenmut/Shepenmut     X-ray/ɛksˈreɪ    disease/dɪˈziːz     resin/rɛzɪn     section/sɛkʃən     wax/wæks    figure/fɪgər     cow/ kaʊ 

练习感悟：本课的难点依旧是人名。录制方面，原本录制了几版，都是1分30多秒，和原音相比，多了十几秒，明显不行，于是删除重新来，直到越读越流利，最后的版本是1分22秒，和原音几乎没有差距。