BingDictionary

Here is a command line dictionary written with ruby that can translate English to Chinese or vice versa.

It uses http://cn.bing.com/dict/ to query.

Installation

$ gem install bing_dictionary

Usage

A dict runable bin file provided.

DEMO：

$ dict cake
$ dict 蛋糕

Support long sentence

Now long sentence is supported

$ dict 你好吗
$ dict How old are you

Support fuzzy query

$ dict hexxo

您要找的是不是

音近词
head coach总教练
hexose己醣
hexode六极管
...

Support Chinese to English

$ dict 单片机
单片机

网络 MCU; Single Chip Microcomputer; Microcontroller

The monolithic integrated circuit occurs the explanation , did not understand may have a look !
单片机发生的讲解，不懂得可以看看！
...

Local cache supported

All queried word default cached to ~/.bing_dictionary.db. So it's much faster when you query the word again.

Here have the most common English words. You can cache them all with following script:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/first20hours/google-10000-english/master/google-10000-english-no-swears.txt | while read line; do dict $line; done

More options

$ dict --help
Example: dict hello
    -p, --[no-]pronounce             Pronounce the word
    -c, --[no-]cache                 Use cache from ~/.bing_dictionary.db (Default on)
    -j, --jump                       Jump to web page
    -v, --version                    Show the version

Work with vim

You can make it work tegother with Vim with bing_dictionary.vim

Thanks

Heavily borrowed from Command-Line-Youdao-Dictionary

Development

bundle exec ./bin/dict --no-cache hello

// Install gem in local
rake install
// Build new version
rake build
// Build new gem and publish to https://rubygems.org
rake release

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/lingceng/bing_dictionary. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.