Rather than have people simply rate their beauty compared with others, he asked them to identify an original photograph of themselves from a lineup including versions that had been altered to appear more and less attractive.
与其让参与者简单地将自己与他人相比评定美貌，他要求他们从一组包含被修改得更吸引人和不那么吸引人的照片中，辨认出自己原始的照片。
missed its original purpose
偏离了其最初的目的
For millennia, we've known what we've known due to artifacts that have survived, often despite their original creators' neglect.
在数千年的时间里，我们所知道的一切都是通过那些得以保存下来的文物，而这些文物往往即使在原作者忽视的情况下也依然留存下来。
Though it's still unclear why the original domestication happened, Science News' Freda Kreier reports that the event coincided with the Sahara growing larger and drier.
尽管尚不清楚最初的驯化为何发生，但《科学新闻》的弗雷达·克雷尔报道说，这一事件与撒哈拉沙漠变得更大更干燥的时间相吻合。
But understanding where the animals were first domesticated could guide archaeologists to a narrower region to search for insights about the original tamed donkeys.
但是了解动物最初在哪里被驯化，可能会引导考古学家在更狭窄的区域内寻找关于最初被驯化的驴的见解。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。