prevailing
adj [attrib 作定语]
(a) most usual orwidespread 普遍的; 盛行的; 流行的
the prevailing customs,fashions, style, etc 流行的风俗、 式样、 款式等.
(b) (of a wind) that blows in an area most frequently (指风)某一区域里最常刮的
The prevailing wind here is from the south-west. 这里最常刮的风是西南风.
She usually wears that round her middle when she goes out.
她外出时总是把它系在腰上。
She had believed in me.
她相信我。
For his lifentime's work in studying the communication of animals, including honey bees, Professor Karl von Frisch was given a Nobel Prize in 1973, which he shared with two other scientists. He died in 1982.