As a historian who's always searching for the text or the image that makes us re-evaluate the past, I've become preoccupied with looking for photographs that show our Victorian ancestors smiling (what better way to shatter the image of 19th-century prudery?).
作为一名总是寻找能让我们重新审视过去的文本或图像的历史学家，我开始着迷于寻找那些展示我们维多利亚时代祖先微笑的照片（还有什么比这更能打破19世纪保守刻板的印象呢？）。
Nature gave us lips to conceal our teeth," ran one popular Victorian maxim, alluding to the fact that before the birth of proper dentistry, mouths were often in a shocking state of hygiene.
有一句流行的维多利亚时代的格言说："大自然赋予我们嘴唇，是为了遮掩牙齿，" 这句话暗示了在正规牙科诞生之前，人们的口腔卫生状况常常令人震惊。
A flashing set of healthy and clean, regular 'pearly whites' was a rare sight in Victorian society, the preserve of the super-rich (and even then, dental hygiene was not guaranteed).
在维多利亚时代社会中，一口洁白、干净、整齐的牙齿是罕见的景象，只有超级富有的人（即使如此，口腔卫生也并不一定有保障）才拥有。
highlighted social media's role in Victorian studies.
突出了社交媒体在维多利亚研究中的作用。
illustrated the development of Victorian photography.
展示了维多利亚时代摄影的发展。
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。