https://github.com/lingceng/bing_dictionary

Bing comand line dictionary
https://github.com/lingceng/bing_dictionary

bing-dictionary command-line dictionary ruby vim

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Bing comand line dictionary

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/lingceng/bing_dictionary
• Owner: lingceng
• License: mit
• Created: 2014-12-11T10:32:25.000Z (about 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-08-22T04:45:17.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-25T03:44:26.876Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Topics: bing-dictionary, command-line, dictionary, ruby, vim
• Language: Ruby
• Size: 201 KB
• Stars: 25
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE
  • Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

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README

          
# 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.

![DEMO ](./dict.png)

## 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](https://github.com/first20hours/google-10000-english) 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](https://github.com/lingceng/bing_dictionary.vim)

## Thanks

Heavily borrowed from [Command-Line-Youdao-Dictionary](https://github.com/qhwa/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](http://contributor-covenant.org) code of conduct.