Remarkably efficient sailing downwind or well off the wind, square sails do not generate power from their leading edge as in the Bermuda rig, which has become predominant in modern times.

尽管方帆船在顺风或无风航行时十分高效，它们逆风行驶时从帆前缘得到的动力却不如百慕大帆多，而帆前缘的动力在现代成为了主要动力。

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An opaque ventilated façade to the west protects the building from the predominant winter wind (gallego) as well as the most intense sun radiation in the warmest summer months.

西侧不导热的通风立面保护建筑免受冬季主导风，以及炎热夏季里强烈的太阳辐射的影响。

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Due to the change of the global climate and gradually strengthened predominant NNE wind in Late Holocene, the eolian sand had been accumulated for a long time in the area b…

到全新世晚期，由于全球气候的变化和优势的北北东方向风力的逐渐增强，河谷洼地与海湾相联结的地区长时间受风沙的堆积而形成岚湖。

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The predominant wind is from the south west.

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