Until then, America runs on whale oil.

在那之 是照亮着美国。

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

但条件是你满载而归。

Until recently, whale oil cornered the market.

不久之 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。

We are in the oil business.

我们身在业。

Blubber in the oil. Smell that, boys!

炼成了 闻闻看！

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

里面的蜡 比他们提炼的值钱多了。

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

煤被用来点灯。它是的一种便宜的替代品，而正变越来越难。

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

你工作一天，只能到大约一个小时的。

Are we ever going to bring whale oil back?

我们会不会有一天把重新用起来？

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

唯一没有增加的就是。

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

我们登上这艘船是为了取，为了赚钱。

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

我们的报酬仅取决于带回的量。

People start to use whale oil.

人们开始使用。

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取。

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。

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

没错：是20世纪人们最喜欢的黄替代品——人造黄的主要成分。

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，出售脂和等产品。

Whale oil is an excellent product.

是一种优秀的产品。

It wasn't just whale oil though.

这不仅仅是的问题。