墨西哥建干尸博物馆

时间：2015-02-11 07:40:04

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Visit the grave of a relative in central Mexico and you're just as likely to find their body, writhing1 in apparent eternal agony, mummified and propped2 up for the amusement of tourists than resting in peace.

在墨西哥瓜纳华托，人们在墓园吊唁亡故时，可能会看到自己故去的亲友。这些干尸姿态蜷缩扭曲，死前的痛苦被永恒地定格。他们非但不能安息，反而成为游客消遣的对象。

 
The Guanajuato Mummy Museum, which sees more than 4,000 visitors a week, charges tourists £2 to gape3 at more than a hundred dried human cadavers4, all of which have been disinterred from graves in the cemetery5 next door.
 
Behind flimsy glass cabinets, the museum displays murder victims, criminals who were buried alive and infants laid to rest dressed up as saints – a Mexican belief that it will ease their passage to heaven.
 
'It's terrifying, I feel sick to my stomach,' Peruvian visitor Maria Goncalves told MailOnline in the middle of her group's guided tour. 'It's the terrible expressions the mummies all have that makes it so horrible.'
 
The Guanajuato Mummy Museum - owned by the state government - was recently voted as one of Mexico's best tourist attractions by users of one of Mexico's most popular tourism websites.
 
The mummies are a parchment-yellow colour, their dried skin moulding around the bones which lie beneath the surface.
 
The thinner areas of skin – such as the eyelids6, genitals, cheeks and earlobes – have deteriorated7 faster, and in most cases little remains8 but flaky scraps9 and gaping10 holes.
 
Despite the museum's macabre11 exhibit, guided tour groups of 15 or more pass through its hallways every ten minutes.
 
'We see even more on weekends,' says Jose Martínez, who sells souvenir sugar effigies12 of the dried human remains at the museum's exit. 'Usually on Saturdays there's an hour-long wait just to get in.'
 
The human remains have been preserved due to the method of burial in the Saint Paola Cemetery next door.
 
Corpses13, rather than being buried in the ground are sealed inside air-tight crypts, where the lack of oxygen slows the natural rate of decomposition14.
 
'The bodies dry out rather than putrefy, which leaves them in this state of mummification', says Jesús Saltillo, one of the tour guides at the museum.
 
Many of the corpses are so well preserved that their eyebrows15, beards and fingernails are still intact.
 
Nearly all of the mummies mouths are gaping open, a result of the hardening of the tongue and slackening of the jaw16 muscles following death.
 
'It leaves them all with an expression as if they were experiencing terrible pain,' says Jesús, 'but the vast majority died peacefully.'

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1 writhing 8e4d2653b7af038722d3f7503ad7849c     
（因极度痛苦而）扭动或翻滚( writhe的现在分词 )
参考例句：
  • She was writhing around on the floor in agony. 她痛得在地板上直打滚。
  • He was writhing on the ground in agony. 他痛苦地在地上打滚。
2 propped 557c00b5b2517b407d1d2ef6ba321b0e     
支撑，支持，维持( prop的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句：
  • He sat propped up in the bed by pillows. 他靠着枕头坐在床上。
  • This fence should be propped up. 这栅栏该用东西支一支。
3 gape ZhBxL     
v.张口，打呵欠，目瞪口呆地凝视
参考例句：
  • His secretary stopped taking notes to gape at me.他的秘书停止了记录，目瞪口呆地望着我。
  • He was not the type to wander round gaping at everything like a tourist.他不是那种像个游客似的四处闲逛、对什么都好奇张望的人。
4 cadavers 3410fe411131d42f43034a0786380a8e     
n.尸体( cadaver的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • Human cadavers were the only known source of hGH, and demand was intense. 人类尸体是hGH已知的惟一来源，而且需求广泛。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 口蹄疫疯牛病
  • Will there be enough cadavers for each group this term? 这个学期每一个组都有足够的尸体吗？ 来自电影对白
5 cemetery ur9z7     
n.坟墓，墓地，坟场
参考例句：
  • He was buried in the cemetery.他被葬在公墓。
  • His remains were interred in the cemetery.他的遗体葬在墓地。
6 eyelids 86ece0ca18a95664f58bda5de252f4e7     
n.眼睑( eyelid的名词复数 )；眼睛也不眨一下；不露声色；面不改色
参考例句：
  • She was so tired, her eyelids were beginning to droop. 她太疲倦了，眼睑开始往下垂。
  • Her eyelids drooped as if she were on the verge of sleep. 她眼睑低垂好像快要睡着的样子。 来自《简明英汉词典》
7 deteriorated a4fe98b02a18d2ca4fe500863af93815     
恶化，变坏( deteriorate的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句：
  • Her health deteriorated rapidly, and she died shortly afterwards. 她的健康状况急剧恶化，不久便去世了。
  • His condition steadily deteriorated. 他的病情恶化，日甚一日。
8 remains 1kMzTy     
n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹
参考例句：
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
9 scraps 737e4017931b7285cdd1fa3eb9dd77a3     
油渣
参考例句：
  • Don't litter up the floor with scraps of paper. 不要在地板上乱扔纸屑。
  • A patchwork quilt is a good way of using up scraps of material. 做杂拼花布棉被是利用零碎布料的好办法。
10 gaping gaping     
adj.口的；张口的；敞口的；多洞穴的v.目瞪口呆地凝视( gape的现在分词 )；张开，张大
参考例句：
  • Ahead of them was a gaping abyss. 他们前面是一个巨大的深渊。
  • The antelope could not escape the crocodile's gaping jaws. 那只羚羊无法从鱷鱼张开的大口中逃脱。 来自《简明英汉词典》
11 macabre 42syo     
adj.骇人的，可怖的
参考例句：
  • He takes a macabre interest in graveyards.他那么留意墓地，令人毛骨悚然。
  • Mr Dahl was well-known for his macabre adult stories called 'Tales of the Unexpected'.达尔先生以成人恐怖小说集《意料之外的故事》闻名于世。
12 effigies ddd261d21f6b4463201553fb9d7d3ad3     
n.（人的）雕像，模拟像，肖像( effigy的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • stone effigies in the church 教堂里的石雕像
  • On 5 November British children burn effigies of Guy Fawkes. 每逢11月5日英国儿童都焚烧盖伊．福克斯的模拟像。 来自辞典例句
13 corpses 2e7a6f2b001045a825912208632941b2     
n.死尸，尸体( corpse的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • The living soldiers put corpses together and burned them. 活着的战士把尸体放在一起烧了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Overhead, grayish-white clouds covered the sky, piling up heavily like decaying corpses. 天上罩满了灰白的薄云，同腐烂的尸体似的沉沉的盖在那里。 来自汉英文学 - 中国现代小说
14 decomposition AnFzT     
n. 分解, 腐烂, 崩溃
参考例句：
  • It is said that the magnetite was formed by a chemical process called thermal decomposition. 据说这枚陨星是在热分解的化学过程中形成的。
  • The dehydration process leads to fairly extensive decomposition of the product. 脱水过程会导致产物相当程度的分解。
15 eyebrows a0e6fb1330e9cfecfd1c7a4d00030ed5     
眉毛( eyebrow的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • Eyebrows stop sweat from coming down into the eyes. 眉毛挡住汗水使其不能流进眼睛。
  • His eyebrows project noticeably. 他的眉毛特别突出。
16 jaw 5xgy9     
n.颚，颌，说教，流言蜚语；v.喋喋不休，教训
参考例句：
  • He delivered a right hook to his opponent's jaw.他给了对方下巴一记右钩拳。
  • A strong square jaw is a sign of firm character.强健的方下巴是刚毅性格的标志。

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