Until then, America runs on whale oil.

在那之前 是油照亮着美国。

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

但条件是你满载油而归。

Until recently, whale oil cornered the market.

不久之前 油还在市场上独占鳌头。

Even today, whale oil is used by NASA.

时至今日 美国航空航天局仍在使用油。

We are in the oil business.

我们身在油业。

Blubber in the oil. Smell that, boys!

油了 闻闻看！

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

里面蜡 比他们提油值钱多了。

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

煤油被用来点灯。它是油一种便宜替代品，而油正变得越来越难以获得。

You work a day, you get about an hour of whale oil.

你工作一天，只能得到大约一个小时油。

Are we ever going to bring whale oil back?

我们会不会有一天把油重新用起来？

The only one that hasn't increased is whale oil.

唯一没有增加就是油。

We are on this ship to get whale oil, to make money.

我们登上这艘船是为了获取油，为了赚钱。

We only get paid based on how much whale oil we bring back.

我们报酬仅取决于带回油量。

People start to use whale oil.

人们开始使用油。

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

19 世纪，捕者抵达北太平洋捕杀抹香以获取油。

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世纪人们最喜欢黄油替代品——人造黄油主要分。

They harpoon these whales and bring them back and sell the blubber and the oil and so on.

他们用鱼叉捕杀这些鱼，带回岸上，出售脂和油等产品。

Whale oil is an excellent product.

油是一种优秀产品。

It wasn't just whale oil though.

这不仅仅是油问题。