[ar:MP3 同步字幕版（英音）][ti:The Cutty Sark][by:更多学习内容，请到查字典英语网yingyu.chazidian.com搜索“新概念”][00:01.45]Lesson 25[00:03.39]The Cutty Sark[00:11.22]What piece of bad luck prevented the Cutty Sark from winning the race?[00:18.84]One of the most famous sailing ships of the nineteenth century, the Cutty Sark, can still be seen at Greenwich.[00:26.90]She stands on dry land and is visited by thousands of people each year.[00:32.80]She serves as an impressive reminder of the great ships of the past.[00:39.01]Before they were replaced by steamships, sailing vessels like the Cutty Sark were used to carry tea from China and wool from Australia.[00:49.58]The Cutty Sark was one of the fastest sailing ships that has ever been built.[00:55.04]The only other ship to match her was the Thermopylae.[00:59.05]Both these ships set out from Shanghai on June 18th, 1872 on an exciting race to England.[01:07.49]This race, which went on for exactly four months, was the last of its kind.[01:13.38]It marked the end of the great tradition of ships with sails and the beginning of a new era.[01:20.68]The first of the two ships to reach Java after the race had begun was the Thermopylae, but on the Indian Ocean, the Cutty Sark took the lead.[01:30.66]It seemed certain that she would be the first ship home,[01:34.63]but during the race she had a lot of bad luck.