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Oil (Excerpt l) by G.C. Thornley There are three main groups of oils: animal, vegetable and mineral. Great quantities of animal oil come from whales, those enormous creatures of the sea which are the largest remaining animals in the world. To protect the whale from the cold of the Arctic seas, nature has provided it with a thick covering of fat called blubber. When the whale is killed, the blubber is stripped off and boiled down, either on board ship or on shore. It produces a great quantity of oil which can be made into food for human consumption. A few other creatures yield oil, but none so much as the whale. The livers of the cod and the halibut, two kinds of fish, yield nourishing oil. Both cod liver oil and halibut liver oil are given to sick children and other invalids who need certain vitamins. These oils may be bought at any chemists. 油 选节1 G．C．索恩利 油主要有三种：动物油，植物油和矿物油。其中大量动物油取自鲸鱼。这些巨大的海生物是在世界上现存最大的动物。为了抵御北极海的寒冷，鲸鱼天生就长有一层厚厚的脂肪—鲸脂。当鲸鱼被杀害，鲸脂就会被剥除并进行熬煮。这些操作会在船上或岸上进行。鲸脂可以生产大量的油，这些油被制成食品供人类消费。其他一些生物也出产油，但没有鲸鱼这么多。鳕鱼和比目鱼，这两种鱼的肝脏出的油营养丰富。这两种鱼肝油可以提供生病的儿童和其他残疾人某些维生素。这些鱼肝油可以在任何药店买到。 Vegetable oil has been known from antiquity. No household can get on without it, for it is used in cooking. Perfumes may be made from the oils of certain flowers. Soaps are made from vegetable and animal oils. 植物油从古代就为人所知。因为它用于烹饪，家中不能没有它。香水可能由某些花的油提炼而成。肥皂是由植物和动物油加工制成的。 To the ordinary man, one kind of oil may be as important as another. But when the politician or the engineer refers to oil, he almost always means mineral oil, the oil that drives tanks, aeroplanes and warships, motor-cars and diesel locomotives, the oil that is used to lubricate all kinds of machinery. This is the oil that has changed the life of the common man. When it is refined into petro it is used to drive the internal combustion engine. To it we owe the existence of the motor-car, which has replaced the private carriage drawn by the horse. To it we owe the possibility of flying. It has changed the methods of warfar