The clippers which set out from the same Chinese ports might spend the next 100 days charting their own ways across the oceans without seeing each other again until they excitedly reached the English Channel, where in the light of dawn they might suddenly find themselves in the company of their rivals.
同由中國各口岸出發的飛翦，可能在此後一百天各自逐浪前進，不見彼此，直到興奮地進入英吉利海峽時，才在乍現的晨光下，赫然發現同伴齊出。