Fanyi

A 🇨🇳 and 🇺🇸 translate tool in your command line.

Install

$ npm install zyfanyi -g

Usage

$ fanyi word

For short:

$ fy word

Translation data is fetched from iciba.com and fanyi.youdao.com, and only support translation between Chinese and English.

In Mac/Linux bash, words will be pronounced by say command.

Translate one word.

$ fanyi love

 love  [ lʌv ]  ~  fanyi.youdao.com

 - n. 恋爱；亲爱的；酷爱；喜爱的事物；爱情，爱意；疼爱；热爱；爱人，所爱之物
 - v. 爱，热爱；爱戴；赞美，称赞；喜爱；喜好；喜欢；爱慕
 - n. （英）洛夫（人名）


 love [ lʌv ] [ lʌv ]  ~  iciba.com

 - vt.&vi. 爱，热爱；爱戴；喜欢；赞美，称赞；
 - vt. 喜爱；喜好；喜欢；爱慕；
 - n. 爱情，爱意；疼爱；热爱；爱人，所爱之物；

More words.

$ zyfanyi make love

Support Chinese, even sentence.

$ zyfanyi 和谐

$ zyfanyi 子非鱼焉知鱼之乐

Configuration

A configuration file can be put into ~/.fanyirc, in the user's home directory

Use subcommand fanyi config [options]

Example:

# Turn off the pronunciation
$ fanyi config --no-say
# or
$ fanyi config -S

# Disable the dictionaryapi
$ fanyi config --no-dictionaryapi
# or
$ fanyi config -D

A sample ~/.fanyirc file:

{
  "iciba": true,
  "youdao": true,
  "dictionaryapi": false,
  "say": false,
  "color": true
}

Error: spawn festival ENOENT

Try this workaround from say.js in Linux.

sudo apt-get install festival festvox-kallpc16k