Before electricity, people used candles or oil lamps for lighting.

在电出现之前，人们用蜡烛或油灯照明。

During opening ceremonies a seal oil lamp was lit similar to the ceremonial olympic flame.

在开幕式上，一盏海豹油灯被点燃，类似于仪式上的奥运圣火。

The room was dingy and windowless, lit by a single oil lamp dangling from the low ceiling.

房间里昏暗肮脏，没有窗户，只有一盏孤零零的油灯从低矮的天花板上吊下来。

She arranged for her barge to be decorated with thousands of tiny oil lamps and glittering, flickering patterns of lights.

她在她的驳船上装饰了成千上万的小油灯和闪闪发光的灯光图案。

Looking about him, he discovered that the rattle came from a hanging oil lamp that was swinging back and forth.

环顾四周，他发现那声音是由一只悬挂着的前后摇晃的油灯发出的。

It is actually the oil lamp that is the source of light in the scene and not the electric light bulb.

事实上，在这个场景中，光源是油灯，而不是电灯泡。

He decides to wait for her and lights an oil lamp.

他决定等她，点了一盏油灯。

That night, Psyche approached her sleeping husband holding an oil lamp.

那天晚上，普赛克拿着一盏油灯走近她熟睡的丈夫。

It knocked over the oil lamp.

它打翻了油灯。

It found none but did find an oil lamp.

它什么也没找到， 但确实找到了一盏油灯。

He never lighted the oil lamp by his bed unless he wanted to read.

除非他想看书， 否则他从不点亮床边的油灯。

But as Filch lowered his quill, there was a great BANG! on the ceiling of the office, which made the oil lamp rattle.

然而，就在费尔奇的笔落下去的时候，办公室的天花板上传来了一声巨响，啷！油灯被震得格格作响。

Everything looked grey in the dim light of the oil lamp.

【light】在昏暗的油灯下，所有的东西看上去都是灰蒙蒙的。

Up to now, indoor lighting came from candles, oil lamps, or gas lamps.

到目前为止， 室内照明来自蜡烛、油灯或煤气灯。

They were powered by oil lamps, with whale oil and whalebone basins, and a very nice-looking community.

他们用油灯供电，有鲸油和鲸骨盆，还有一个非常漂亮的社区。

Now an oil lamp and a few candles lighted the room and the roaring fire in the wide hearth gave most of the illumination.

现在客厅里只点着一盏油灯和几支蜡烛，而大部分亮光却来自那个宽大火炉里高声嘶叫的火苗。

There is a wonderful story of footmen having to remove for cleaning all the electric lamps each morning, as if they were oil lamps.

有个有趣的故事是说一名男仆每早起来都要卸下灯泡并清洁，搞得它们跟煤油灯似的。

Late that night when her husband was sleeping, she armed herself with a knife and lit an oil lamp.

那天深夜，她的丈夫正在睡觉，她拿着刀子，点着油灯。

The single unblocked window revealed distant bursts of light where the castle stood, but inside the room was dark except for a solitary oil lamp.

那扇没被钉上的窗子里显示出远处城堡那儿发出的光亮，但是这个房间里却是一片黑暗，仅有一盏油灯。

The fire on the hearth burned slowly and the wavering light from the oil lamp made shadows on the wall.

壁炉里的火慢慢地燃烧着， 油灯摇曳的光影在墙上投下了阴影。