Many families use kerosene oil lamps.

很多家庭使用煤油灯。

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The refined kerosene could be used in lamps, replacing the more expensive whale oil.

精制的煤油可用于油灯，替代了更昂贵的鲸油。

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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.

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。

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Many families use kerosene oil lamps.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

In The Prize, which won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1992, Dan provides a comprehensive history of oil that traces the development of the industry from its beginnings in the 19th century when it began producing kerosene for lamps to the oil crisis of the 1970s, through to the Gulf War.

FORBES: Oil and China