JimBreen

jim_breen is a gem which find some sentences with some key words from JimBreen's website ( http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi ). Jim Breen is well known as an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the Japanese Studies Centre at Monash University and the one who is cultivating and managing a large scale of Japanese/English dictionary's database.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'jim_breen'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install jim_breen

Usage

You can find some sentences with '楽しい' as below.

$ jim_breen 楽しい

こーゆーのは、買うのが楽しいのよ。使うか使わないかなんてのは、二の次なんだって。
This sort of thing, it's buying stuff that's fun. Whether you use it or not is secondary.

旅行中楽しい思いをした。
I had a good time during the trip.

旅行ほど楽しいものはない。
Nothing is more pleasant than traveling.

You can find some sentences with 'as well as' as below.

$ jim_breen "as well as"

肩関節は、単独で動くほか、腕の動きにも連動して動きます。
The shoulder joints, as well as moving on their own, also move in conjunction with arm movements.

今日は、ばーさんのお使いを兼ねて街で買い物。
Today I'm shopping in town as well as running an errand for my grandmother.

両親同様に少女も大変思いやりがあった。
The girl as well as her parents was very sympahtetic.

目が覚めているときばかりか眠っているときにもそれが必要だ。
We need it when asleep as well as when awake.

You can find more sentences with number(upto 1000) as below.

$ jim_breen "look into" 100

できるだけ君本人が行って調べたほうがいいよ。
If at all possible, you should go and look into the matter yourself.

彼らはその問題の調査をはじめた。
They began to look into the problem.

彼らはその事故の原因を調べることに意見が一致した。
They agreed to look into the causes of the accident.

彼はその一件を調査し始めた。
He began to look into the matter.

箱の中をみてごらん。
Look into the box.

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Contributing

Fork it ( http://github.com/gipcompany/jim_breen/fork )
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
Create new Pull Request