whale-oil
基本解释
- n.鯨油
英汉例句
- It was a cheap substitute for whale oil, which was becoming harder to get.
它是鯨油的一種便宜的替代品，而鯨油正變得越來越難以獲得。 - NUISANCE: As whale oil for lamps became scarce in the 1850s, Canadians converted seeping ground oil into kerosene.
曾是廢棄物：1850年代，點燈用的鯨魚油産量逐漸減少，加拿大人將滲出地麪的油轉換成煤油。 - The American colonies traded goods such as whale oil, ginger, iron, wood, and rum, an alcoholic drink made from sugarcane.
美國殖民地貿易一些商品如鯨油，生薑，鉄制品，木制品還有糖酒，一種從糖裡麪釀出來的含酒精的飲品。 - They correspond with extraordinary precision to the adoption of substitutes, kerosene for whale oil and steel for whale bone in corsets (the primary commercial reasons behind whaling).
煤油替代鯨魚油，鋼鉄替代做緊身衣（捕鯨業興起的主要商業原因）的鯨魚骨。 - We may live to see the extinction of the whale.
人類或許能親眼見到鯨的滅絕。