He was an old kerosene lamp.

他是盏旧的煤油灯。

With a flash, the kerosene lamp went out.

煤油灯闪了闪就灭了.

Farmers in Florida used kerosene lamps to ripen oranges.

佛罗里达州的农民使用煤油灯使橙子成熟。

Millions of Indians, particularly in remote villages, still rely on dangerous kerosene lamps.

数以百万计的印度人，特别是偏远村庄的村民，现在依然要靠危险的煤油灯照明。

Ayani once used kerosene lamps and dry cell batteries to light up her home and shop.

Ayani 曾经用煤油灯和干电池来照亮她的家和商店。

He got out his notebook and sat down at the table by the light of the kerosene lamp.

他拿出他的日记本，在桌旁的煤油灯下坐下来。

The more prosperous villagers had kerosene lamps, but Berl and his wife did not believe in new gadgets.

条件好点的村民们已经有了煤油灯，但是伯尔和他的妻子不相信新玩意儿。

But because of her inspiration, I spent many hours beside a kerosene lamp reading Shakespeare and other famous writers.

但是由于贝茜老师的鼓励，我每天会花好几个小时在煤油灯前读莎士比亚和其他著名作家的作品。

Born in 1976, a year after the end of the war, she remembers doing homework by the light of a kerosene lamp.

出生于1976年——也即（越南）战争结束的次年——的她还记得自己在煤油灯下做功课的情形。

The old kerosene lamp grows dusty, as this light is now powered by a solar panel.

旧煤油灯变得尘土飞扬，因为这盏灯现在由太阳能电池板供电。

The old kerosene lamp grows dusty as this light is now powered by a solar panel, and the same panel provides enough juice to charge their cellphones.

旧煤油灯变得尘土飞扬，因为这盏灯现在由太阳能电池板供电，而同一块电池板提供的电量足以为他们的手机充电。

After he had eaten his supper in the ranch house, he took up the newspaper which had come that morning, and drew his chair into the scant light of the kerosene lamp.

在牧场的房子里吃过晚饭后，克林特拿起早晨送来的报纸，把椅子拉到煤油灯微弱的灯光下。

The railroads, with their fragile iron rails, their little wheezy locomotives, their wooden bridges, their unheated coaches, and their kerosene lamps, fairly typified the prevailing frontier business and economic organization.

铁路以其脆弱的铁轨、发出喘息声的小机车、木桥、不加热的客车和煤油灯，相当典型地代表了当时流行的边疆商业和经济组织。

The last time I saw her she prayed standing by the side of her bed at night, naked to the waist, the light of a kerosene lamp moving upon her dark skin.

我最后一次见到她时， 她晚上站在床边祈祷，赤裸到腰部， 煤油灯的光在她黝黑的皮肤上移动。

I remember it was spare, clean, dimly lit by a pair of kerosene lamps. There were two mattresses on opposite sides of the room, a worn Herati rug with frayed edges in between.

我记得它狭小而干净，点着两盏煤油灯，光线昏暗。屋里两端各摆着一床褥子，一张破旧的赫拉特（Herati，阿富汗西部城市）出产的地毯四边磨损，摆在中间。

But her mother thought of their Surrey home as the “house”, whereas their Nigerian home was “home”, a character-building “tropical gulag” with kerosene lamps, rice-and-okra soup, “body-temperature Coca-Cola” and a live-in tribe of cackling uncles and aunts.

但Saro-Wiwa的妈妈把这个叶萨里郡的家当成一座房子，而在尼日利亚的家才是真正意义上的“家”：标志性建筑“热带拉格”中的煤油灯和大米秋葵粥，暖暖的可乐，家族中长辈的高谈阔论。

However, with kerosene lamps and electricity on the rise in the mid to late 1800, many realized that it was time to pivot and few pivoted harder than William Proctor and James Gamble's Sons.

然而，随着 1800 年中后期煤油灯和电力的兴起，许多人意识到是时候进行转型了，而很少有人比威廉·普罗克特和詹姆斯·甘布尔的儿子们更努力地转型。