制作木乃伊

在制作木乃伊的过程中，发展了医学。

During the process of making the mummy , have developed medical science .

但制作木乃伊价格不菲。

But the process isn 't cheap .

我重申一次，对于我们来说制作木乃伊最主要的原则是永久性停止被制作者的所有动物性功能。

I repeat that the leading principle of embalmment consisted , with us , in the immediately arresting , and holding in perpetual abeyance , all the animal functions subjected to the process .

在这里我无法说的太具体，但是有必要说明一下，在埃及制作木乃伊（确切地说）就是要无限期地抑制被制作者的所有动物性功能。

Well I cannot enter into details just now ; but it is necessary to explain that to embalm ( properly speaking ), in Egypt , was to arrest indefinitely all the animal functions subjected to the process .

制作人类木乃伊是为来世保存好身体，但制作动物木乃伊就有许多其他原因了。

While human mummies were meant to preserve bodies for the afterlife , animals were mummified for numerous reasons .

埃及古物学家认为，当祭祀用的动物供不应求时，古埃及人就用与这些动物的生活息息相关的物件来制作动物木乃伊，比如建巢穴的原料或者蛋壳。

The Egyptologist thinks that as people ran out of animals to offer the gods , they began mummifying objects that the animals were closely associated with during their lifetime - things like nest material or eggshells .

制作一只猫木乃伊要花费3600英镑，狗则要1.5万英镑。

Cats cost £ 3600 and dogs at £ 15000 .

萨门公司已经成功制作了一些人类木乃伊。但这些木乃伊在做完18个月后被打开检查。而根据犹他州法律规定，这些木乃伊在被打开后必须焚化。

Summum have already mummified human beings but their progress has been checked after 18 months and then state law says that as they have been opened , they must be incinerated .