kkdict is a small tool for you to look up an English word in the Youdao.com dictionary. Youdao.com is an excellent electronic dictionary provider in China. But it does not provide any client for the Linux platform.
kkdict is written in Ruby.
ruby 1.8.7+
rubygems
And the following gems are required:
hpricot
kkdict the_word_to_look_up
Sample input (in terminal):
kkdict america
Sample output:
**** Searching host...
美洲,亚美利加洲[亦称the Americas]
北美洲,北亚美利加洲 [见North America]
南美洲,南亚美利加洲 [见South America]
美国,美利坚合众国( = the United States of America)[略作U.S.A.,见United States]
[短语:]
License: undecided yet.
Author: Wei Xie <XieConnect (at) gmail.com>