The refined kerosene could be used in lamps, replacing the more expensive whale oil.
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3. 人们捕鲸是为了获得宝贵的鲸油、鲸肉和鲸骨。
Men went whaling to get the valuable oil, meat, and bones of whale.
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4. 人们捕鲸是为了获得宝贵的鲸油、鲸肉和鲸骨。
Men went whaling to get the valuable oil, meat, and bones of whale .
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5. 尽管西方人曾依赖鲸油照明，但我们也从未真正将鲸鱼捕杀殆尽。
Although Westerners were once reliant on whale oil for lighting, we never actually ran out of whales.
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6. 它是鲸油的一种便宜的替代品，而鲸油正变得越来越难以获得。
It was a cheap substitute for whale oil, which was becoming harder to get.
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7. 在18世纪直到19世纪中叶，鲸油一直都是多数西方世界国家的照明能源。
From the 18th through the mid-19th century, whale oil provided light to much of the Western world.
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8. 深深的口子：7月30日和田港，获得下面的肉之前，捕鲸人划开一层脂肪，或称鲸油。
Deep cuts: Whalers peel back a layer of fat, or blubber, before harvesting the meat underneath on July 30 in Wada Port.
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9. 图勒人以北极露脊鲸的鲸肉和鲸脂为食，用它们的骨头建造了自己的房子并以鲸油为燃料。
They ate meat and blubber from the bowhead, built houses using their bones and burned their oil.
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10. 19世纪，人类成功从石油中提炼出煤油，煤油代替了鲸油，使得许多鲸类免受灭绝的厄运。
Kerosene refined from such petroleum helped displace the whale oil that lit lamps in the 19th century and led to the near extinction of many whale species.
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11. 该委员会成立于1946年，以控制鲸油市场为目的，后来担负起保护鲸类不被捕杀灭绝的责任。
The commission was created in 1946 to control the market for whale oil and later took on the duty of protecting whales from being hunted to extinction.
The whale has drawn huge crowds of curious onlookers, with young and old climbing over rocks slickened by rotting whale fat and braving a powerful stench to gawk at the giant carcass.
Now, as Hobart Town was the nearest port, the whalers found that it saved time to go thither with their oil, and to buy their provisions and refit their ships there;
Centuries ago, Long Islanders hunted whales for oil, Clark said, and in the 19th century, they swam underneath what's now the George Washington Bridge.
Centuries ago, Long Islanders hunted whales for oil, Clark said, and in the 19th century, they swam underneath what's now the George Washington Bridge.
