鲸油

I don't live in an igloo or eat blubber, or own a dogsled....

我他妈不住雪屋也不吃鲸油，也没有什么破雪橇

I think they're right but probably not in the way they may think. The use of whale oil emphatically did not decline because of resource depletion but because of substitution.

我认为他们是正确的，但是他们思考的方式可能不对，鲸油使用的减少完全不是因为资源的减少而是因为有了替代品。

The great mansions and finely dressed women of the town all exist thanks to the high prices that whale oil commands.

伟大的大厦和精心打扮妇女镇所有存在由于高油价的鲸油的命令。

Whales had been hunted into near extinction, and substitutes for whale oil had been found.

捕猎鲸鱼已到濒临灭绝，并替代鲸油被发现。

Its importance in the world economy evolved slowly, with Wood and coal used for heating and cooking, and whale oil used for lighting well into the 19th Century.

其重要性在世界经济发展缓慢，与木材和煤炭用于取暖和做饭，而鲸油用于照明一直到19世纪。

Whale oil is used as lamp fuel and for making candles - in the early 19th century there is no electricity, gas, or kerosene for lighting.

鲸油可以用来制作灯的燃料和蜡烛——在十九世纪早期，还没有电、煤气或煤油来为人类提供照明的能源。

And whale oil hasn't fueled any lamps in well over a century.

不用鲸油点灯已经有100年了。

Higher prices have historically spurred customers to seek substitutes -- that is how whale oil fell out of fashion as lamp fuel in the 19th century.

从历史上看，商品价格上涨会促使消费者寻求代替品，这也是19世纪鲸油不再作为流行使用的灯油的原因。

VOICE ONE: The American colonies traded goods such as whale oil, ginger, iron, wood, and rum, an alcoholic drink made from sugarcane.

美国殖民地贸易一些商品如鲸油，生姜，铁制品，木制品还有糖酒，一种从糖里面酿出来的含酒精的饮品。

Oilmeans any persistent oil such as crude oil, fuel oil, heavy diesel oil, lubricating oil and whale oil, whether carried on board a ship as cargo or in the bunkers of such a ship.

"油类"是指任何持久性油类，例如原油、燃料油、重度柴油、润滑油以及鲸油，无论是作为货物装运于船舶之上，或装运于船舶的燃油舱内作为这类船舶的燃料。

I didn't watch TV last night, because it .

昨晚我没有看电视，因为电视机坏了。

Since this year, in a lot of villages of Beijing, TV of elevator liquid crystal was removed.

今年以来，在北京的很多小区里，电梯液晶电视被撤了下来。