Blubber in the oil. Smell that, boys!

炼成鲸油了 闻闻看！

We are in the oil business.

我们身在鲸油业。

Until recently, whale oil cornered the market.

不久之前 鲸油还在市场上独占鳌头。

Until then, America runs on whale oil.

在那之前 是鲸油照亮着美。

Only on the condition you bring home a ship full of oil.

但条件是你满载鲸油而归。

What's in there is worth a hell of a lot more than what they're boiling down.

里面的鲸蜡 比他们提炼的鲸油值钱多了。

Even today, whale oil is used by NASA.

时至今日 美天局仍在使用鲸油。

Kerosene was used to light lamps. It was a cheap substitute for whale oil, which was becoming harder to get.

煤油用来点灯。它是鲸油的一种便宜的替代品，而鲸油越来越难以获。

There wasn't much demand for whale oil or meat in the Soviet Union.

苏联对鲸油或鲸肉的需求并不大。

In the 1800s, whalers arrived in the North Pacific to hunt sperm whales for their oil.

19 世纪，捕鲸者抵达北太平洋捕杀抹香鲸以获取鲸油。

They were powered by oil lamps, with whale oil and whalebone basins, and a very nice-looking community.

他们用油灯供电，有鲸油和鲸骨盆，还有一个非常漂亮的社区。

That's right: whale oil was a main ingredient in everyone's favorite 20th-century butter substitute: margarine.

没错：鲸油是 20 世纪人人喜爱的黄油替代品：人造黄油的主要成分。

As a distinguished historian put it: Before 1870, only the rich could afford whale oil and candles.

如一位著名历史学家所说：1870年之前，只有富人才能买起鲸油和蜡烛。

The streets of Europe were lit with Nantucket whale oil.

欧洲的街道上楠塔基特鲸油照亮。

There just isn't much demand for whale meat, it turns out, and even less for whale oil.

事实证明，人们对鲸肉的需求并不多，对鲸油的需求就更少了。

Farther afield, American ships roamed the Pacific searching for profits in the whale-oil trade and markets in tea and silks.

更远的地方, 美船只在太平洋上漫游, 寻找鲸油贸易和茶叶和丝绸市场的利润。

Since there's not much demand for whale meat, or whale oil, why is there still any whaling in Norway?

既然对鲸肉或鲸油的需求不大，为什么挪威仍然存在捕鲸活动？

Whale oil had lit the world for decades, but it was being replaced by fossil fuels and, eventually, electricity.

几十年来，鲸油一直照亮着世界，但它在化石燃料取代，最终电力取代。

Whale oil is an excellent product.

鲸油是一种优秀的产品。

But while the city’s early prosperity was fuelled by whale oil, it was a much smaller sea creature that brought Monterey its greatest riches.

不过这座城市早期的财富来源归功于鲸油，相较来说，这么小型的海洋生物却带给蒙特利如此巨大的利益。