Blubber in the oil. Smell that, boys!

炼成了 闻闻看！

We are in the oil business.

我们身在业。

Until then, America runs on whale oil.

在那之前 是照亮着美国。

Until recently, whale oil cornered the market.

不久之前 还在市场上独占鳌头。

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

条件是你满载而归。

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

里面的蜡 比他们提炼的值钱多了。

Even today, whale oil is used by NASA.

时至今日 美国航航天局仍在使用。

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

煤被用来点灯。它是的一种便宜的替代品，而正变得越来越难以获得。

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

苏联对或肉的需求并不大。

But commodities like whale oil, absolutely, they wanted that.

这样的商品，绝对是他们想要的。

The streets of Europe were lit with Nantucket whale oil.

欧洲的街道上被楠塔基特照亮。

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

他们用灯供电，有和骨盆，还有一个非常漂亮的社区。

Whale oil is an excellent product.

是一种优秀的产品。

He says that whale oil was valuable as a lubricant.

他说作为润滑剂很有价值。

And it's whale oil that provides that illumination.

提供了这种照明。

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

既然对肉或的需求不大，为什么挪威仍然存在捕活动？

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

几十年来，一直照亮着世界，它正在被化石燃料取代，最终被电力取代。

What share of illumination was provided by whale oil at the peak of whale-oil illumination?

在照明的峰值时，提供的照明比例是多少？

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

没错：是 20 世纪人人喜爱的黄替代品：人造黄的主要成分。

Did those colonial-era whaling exporters need a specific charter from the crown for exporting whale oil and other whale products?

那些殖民时代的捕出口商是否需要获得皇室的特定许可才能出口和其他鱼产品？