1·So far we've been relying on our little and a dozen kerosene lamps.
到目前为止，我们还是靠十几个小小的煤油灯照明。
2·Several houses lit the kerosene lamps up and the dim flames cast some shapes trambling on the wall.
几户人家点起了煤油灯，昏黄的火苗把人的影子放大数倍地映在土坯墙上，摇摇晃晃地自导自演着皮影戏。
3·The cost of lighting a shack takes 10% of income in the poorest households and the kerosene lamps are highly polluting.
照明一间小屋棚的费用会花掉最穷家庭的百分之十的收入。
4·In response to customer needs, Standard Oil developed small tin kerosene lamps known as Mei Foo, or "beautiful and trustworthy."
为了满足顾客的需要，标准石油推出了一种小巧、铁制的油灯，称为“美孚灯”。
5·Now employing more than 250 people, the firm sells cheap electricity to 200, 000 rural folk, who previously relied on kerosene lamps or candles.
现在，这家拥有250多名员工的公司，为20多万农村人口提供低价电，此前人们离不开的煤油灯和蜡烛，都退出了历史舞台。
6·Behind me, faint light from kerosene lamps shone out of cracks in the walls of dilapidated thatched huts-the village wasn't wired for electricity until the eighties.
在我后面是破烂不堪的茅草房，墙面的缝隙里透着煤油灯微弱的灯光——那个村庄直到80年代才通电。
7·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。
8·Kerosene was used to light lamps.
煤油被用来点灯。
9·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。
10·Many families use kerosene oil lamps.
很多家庭使用煤油灯。