Until recently, whale oil cornered the market.

不久之前 油还在市场上独占鳌头。

Until then, America runs on whale oil.

在那之前 是油照亮着美国。

Even today, whale oil is used by NASA.

时至今日 美国航空航天局仍在使用油。

Blubber in the oil. Smell that, boys!

炼成油了 闻闻看！

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

里面的 他们提炼的油值钱多了。

We are in the oil business.

我们身在油业。

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

但条件是你满载油而归。

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

煤油被用来灯。它是油的一种便宜的替代品，而油正变得越来越难以获得。

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

苏联对油或肉的需求并不大。

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

19 世纪，捕者抵达北捕杀抹香以获取油。

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，有油和骨盆，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：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.

正如一位著名历史学家所说：1870年之前，只有富人才能买得起油和烛。

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

事实证明，人们对肉的需求并不多，对油的需求就更少了。

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, 美国船只在上漫游, 寻找油贸易和茶叶和丝绸市场的利润。

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油，相较来说，这么小型的海生物却带给蒙特利如此巨大的利益。

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

几十年来，油一直照亮着世界，但它正在被化石燃料取代，最终被电力取代。

The streets of Europe were lit with Nantucket whale oil.

欧洲的街道上被楠塔基特油照亮。

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

既然对肉或油的需求不大，为什么挪威仍然存在捕活动？

Whale oil, as we heard in our previous episode, had been used for decades as a lighting fuel and as industrial lubricant.

正如我们在上一集中听到的那样，油几十年来一直被用作照明燃料和工业润滑剂。