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1 to hear

2 news

3 well-known

4 famous

5 reputation

6 fame

7 to smell

8 to sniff at

1 each does his utmost (idiom)

2 from each according to his means

1 a really determined person will find a solution (idiom); where there's a will, there's a way

1 decompression table

1 not amenable to reason

2 unreasonable

1 dipole (e.g. magnetic dipole)

1 family property

1 "Pregnancy-oriented Economy", new market conditions brought about by a predicted baby boom in China

1 Great Qing dynasty (1644-1911)

1 Strauss (name)

2 Johann Strauss (1825-1899), Austrian composer

3 Richard Strauss (1864-1949), German composer

1 to travel (somewhere)

2 (vandalism) "was here"

1 lit. burn your hand, feel the heat (idiom)

2 fig. arrogance of the powerful

3 a mighty figure no-one dares approach

4 hot (exciting or in favor)

1 to pray

2 to say one's prayers

1 monoplane

1 Wuqi county in Yan'an 延安[Yan2 an1], Shaanxi

1 implantation (e.g. of ovum in uterus)

1 maternal

2 matriarchal

1 marquis, second of the five orders of ancient Chinese nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]

2 nobleman or high official

1 lit. to sleep on brushwood and taste gall (like King Gou Jian of Yue 勾踐|勾践[Gou1 Jian4]), in order to recall one's humiliations) (idiom)

2 fig. to maintain one's resolve for revenge

1 ceiling