Words and Expressions
1. last： to be enough for someone for a period of time
The food can last me for a week.?
這些食物夠我熬過這周了。
2. prove: be (系動詞）
If someone or something proves difficult, helpful, a problem etc, thay are difficult, helpful, a problem etc.
It proves to be a dog. = It is a dog.
3. fall to pieces: 散成碎片
fall victim to ...: 成為...的受害者
fall apart: 瓦解
relationship fall apart
4. operation: surgery
The doctor performed /carried out an operation. 主要是指醫生做了個手術。而不是被做手術
The surgeon who performed the operation.
have a operation: 被做了一個手術
undergo: experience or endure ( sth unpleasant or painful); be subject to ( a process, etc)
Some children undergo a complete transformation when they become teenagers.
He underwent major surgery last year.
minor/small?operation: 小手術 ? ?major operation：大手術
come through/survive the operation
She came through the operation very well.
5. terminal disease: 致命的疾病 ? incurable disease: 不治之癥 ?fatal disease: 重大疾病，致命疾病
pronunciation
1. 第一句里的who要弱讀，who died in要連在一起讀，which, what, when 等都是一樣的讀法，需要跟后面的詞連讀輕讀
2. of: [?v? ] 重音在前面，有時v會省略
3. singer讀法聽原音，n不讀出來
Summary
Doctors operated a mummy who was an Egyptian woman, died in 800 B.C. She proved to be an Shepenmut mummy and a singer in the Temple of Thebes. Doctors perfomed this operation in order to find out whether this woman was died of a rare disease. After removing a section from the mummy and sending it to laboratory, Unexpectedly, a small wax figure of the god Duamutef was found inside the mummy . Though, they still had no idea why the woman died. They feared that the mummy would fall to pieces. But she successfully came through the operation.
