People are willing to pay up to $150,000 to be mummified after death.现在人们愿意花费高达15万美元的费用, 将自己在死后制成木乃伊。

that deadening self-consciousness and artificial language which mummify prayer麻木的自我意识和做作的语言把祈祷变得如同木乃伊一般毫无生气

There were apples laid out on newspaper on the attic floors, gently mummifying.阁楼的地板上铺着报纸, 上面摆着的苹果正在逐渐变干。