From 1cc6779b49e4fc106166a4e04b9a0c78b515d45f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Xavi Lee Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2023 20:37:05 +0800 Subject: [PATCH 1/4] add sentence example --- scripts/get_sentence/get_sentence..py | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++ scripts/python-requirements/requirements.txt | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+) create mode 100644 scripts/get_sentence/get_sentence..py create mode 100644 scripts/python-requirements/requirements.txt diff --git a/scripts/get_sentence/get_sentence..py b/scripts/get_sentence/get_sentence..py new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9e2551c --- /dev/null +++ b/scripts/get_sentence/get_sentence..py @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +import requests +from bs4 import BeautifulSoup + +url = "https://fraze.it/n_search.jsp?q=power" + +# 发送GET请求 +response = requests.get(url) + +# 检查请求是否成功 +if response.status_code == 200: + # 使用BeautifulSoup解析HTML内容 + soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'html.parser') + + content = soup.find(id="txt0") + + # 获取纯文本内容 + text_content = content.text + + # 打印提取的纯文本内容 + print(text_content) + + # 在这里处理你的提取内容，将其保存到文件或进行其他操作 +else: + print("请求失败，状态码:", response.status_code) diff --git a/scripts/python-requirements/requirements.txt b/scripts/python-requirements/requirements.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..088583e --- /dev/null +++ b/scripts/python-requirements/requirements.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +python-docx +pymysql +beautifulsoup4 From 57e3282fcb070a61a12f7bbff065aafc894527ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Xavi Lee Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2023 20:44:05 +0800 Subject: [PATCH 2/4] fix typo --- scripts/get_sentence/{get_sentence..py => get_sentence.py} | 0 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) rename scripts/get_sentence/{get_sentence..py => get_sentence.py} (100%) diff --git a/scripts/get_sentence/get_sentence..py b/scripts/get_sentence/get_sentence.py similarity index 100% rename from scripts/get_sentence/get_sentence..py rename to scripts/get_sentence/get_sentence.py From 13fda078aa365fe2f061a7174c3ea2920c480dc3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Xavi Lee Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 23:38:28 +0800 Subject: [PATCH 3/4] add words raw data --- scripts/get_sentence/get_sentence.py | 24 - wordsInfo.json | 727650 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 727650 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 scripts/get_sentence/get_sentence.py create mode 100644 wordsInfo.json diff --git a/scripts/get_sentence/get_sentence.py b/scripts/get_sentence/get_sentence.py deleted file mode 100644 index 9e2551c..0000000 --- a/scripts/get_sentence/get_sentence.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,24 +0,0 @@ -import requests -from bs4 import BeautifulSoup - -url = "https://fraze.it/n_search.jsp?q=power" - -# 发送GET请求 -response = requests.get(url) - -# 检查请求是否成功 -if response.status_code == 200: - # 使用BeautifulSoup解析HTML内容 - soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'html.parser') - - content = soup.find(id="txt0") - - # 获取纯文本内容 - text_content = content.text - - # 打印提取的纯文本内容 - print(text_content) - - # 在这里处理你的提取内容，将其保存到文件或进行其他操作 -else: - print("请求失败，状态码:", response.status_code) diff --git a/wordsInfo.json b/wordsInfo.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0dad23e --- /dev/null +++ b/wordsInfo.json @@ -0,0 +1,727650 @@ +{ + "wordsInfo": + [ + { + "word": "it", + "results": [ + { + "definition": "the branch of engineering that deals with the use of computers and telecommunications to retrieve and store and transmit information", + "partOfSpeech": "noun", + "synonyms": [ + "information technology" + ], + "typeOf": [ + "applied science", + "engineering", + "engineering science", + "technology" + ] + }, + { + "partOfSpeech": "pronoun", + "definition": "The neuter pronoun of the third person, corresponding to the masculine pronoun he and the feminine she, and having the same plural (they, their, theirs, them)." + } + ], + "pronunciation": { + "all": "ɪt" + }, + "frequency": 7.28 + }, + { + "word": "be", + "results": [ + { + "definition": "be priced at", + "partOfSpeech": "verb", + "synonyms": [ + "cost" + ], + "hasTypes": [ + "knock back", + "put back", + "set back" + ] + }, + { + "definition": "represent, as of a character on stage", + "partOfSpeech": "verb", + "synonyms": [ + "embody", + "personify" + ], + "typeOf": [ + "symbolize", + "stand for", + "symbolise", + "typify", + "represent" + ], + "hasTypes": [ + "represent", + "body", + "exemplify", + "personify" + ] + }, + { + "definition": "form or compose", + "partOfSpeech": "verb", + "synonyms": [ + "comprise", + "constitute", + "make up", + "represent" + ], + "hasTypes": [ + "compose", + "range", + "present", + "fall into", + "fall under", + "pose", + "form", + "constitute", + "make", + "supplement", + "straddle" + ], + "examples": [ + "These constitute my entire belonging" + ] + }, + { + "definition": "be identical or equivalent to", + "partOfSpeech": "verb", + "synonyms": [ + "equal" + ], + "hasTypes": [ + "correspond", + "stand for", + "translate", + "tally", + "represent", + "fit", + "check", + "jibe", + "gibe", + "agree", + "match", + "equate" + ] + }, + { + "definition": "have life, be alive", + "partOfSpeech": "verb", + "synonyms": [ + "live" + ], + "verbGroup": [ + "go", + "live on", + "hold out", + "hold up", + "live", + "last", + "endure", + "survive" + ], + "derivation": [ + "being" + ] + }, + { + "definition": "a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element", + "partOfSpeech": "noun", + "synonyms": [ + "atomic number 4", + "beryllium", + "glucinium" + ], + "typeOf": [ + "metal", + "metallic element" + ], + "substanceOf": [ + "beryl", + "chrysoberyl", + "ytterbite", + "gadolinite" + ] + }, + { + "definition": "have an existence, be extant", + "partOfSpeech": "verb", + "synonyms": [ + "exist" + ], + "hasTypes": [ + "come", + "menace", + "hold", + "endanger", + "lie in", + "lie", + "kick about", + "kick around", + "knock about", + "preexist", + "distribute", + "threaten", + "obtain", + "dwell", + "cohabit", + "imperil", + "coexist", + "consist", + "indwell", + "prevail", + "inhabit", + "peril", + "jeopardise", + "jeopardize", + "flow" + ], + "derivation": [ + "being" + ] + }, + { + "definition": "work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function", + "partOfSpeech": "verb", + "synonyms": [ + "follow" + ], + "hasTypes": [ + "cox", + "vet" + ] + }, + { + "definition": "have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)", + "partOfSpeech": "verb", + "hasTypes": [ + "delimitate", + "delineate", + "depend", + "deserve", + "disaccord", + "disagree", + "discombobulate", + "discord", + "distribute", + "diverge", + "draw", + "drown", + "embellish", + "embody", + "encounter", + "end", + "enter", + "fall", + "feel", + "figure", + "fit", + "footle", + "fox", + "fuddle", + "gape", + "go", + "grace", + "gravitate", + "hail", + "hang", + "hang around", + "head", + "head up", + "hold", + "hoodoo", + "hum", + "hurt", + "impend", + "incarnate", + "incline", + "interrelate", + "iridesce", + "jumble", + "kill", + "lallygag", + "yawn", + 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johnson", + "dr. seuss", + "dreiser", + "du maurier", + "dubois heyward", + "dumas", + "durrell", + "dutch leonard", + "e. b. white", + "e. e. cummings", + "e. l. doctorow", + "e. t. a. hoffmann", + "edgar allan poe", + "edgar rice burroughs", + "edgar wallace", + "edgard lawrence doctorow", + "edith newbold jones wharton", + "edith wharton", + "edmond de goncourt", + "edmond hoyle", + "edmond louis antoine huot de goncourt", + "edna ferber", + "edna o'brien", + "edward estlin cummings", + "edward everett hale", + "edward george earle bulwer-lytton", + "edwin dubois hayward", + "ehrenberg", + "eleanor roosevelt", + "elias canetti", + "elie wiesel", + "eliezer wiesel", + "eliot", + "elizabeth cleghorn stevenson gaskell", + "elizabeth gaskell", + "elizabeth haldane", + "elizabeth sanderson haldane", + "ellen price wood", + "ellison", + "elmore john leonard", + "elmore leonard", + "elwyn brooks white", + "emerson", + "emile gaboriau", + "emile herzog", + "emily bronte", + "emily jane bronte", + "emily post", + "emily price post", + "eric arthur blair", + "eric blair", + "erica jong", + "erle stanley gardner", + "ernest hemingway", + "ernst theodor amadeus hoffmann", + "ernst theodor wilhelm hoffmann", + "erskine caldwell", + "erskine preston caldwell", + "eudora welty", + "eugene luther vidal", + "eugene sue", + "evelyn arthur saint john waugh", + "evelyn waugh", + "ezra loomis pound", + "ezra pound", + "f. scott fitzgerald", + "farrell", + "feodor dostoevski", + "feodor dostoevsky", + "feodor dostoyevsky", + "feodor mikhailovich dostoevski", + "feodor mikhailovich dostoevsky", + "feodor mikhailovich dostoyevsky", + "ferber", + "fielding", + "first baron lytton", + "fitzgerald", + "flannery o'connor", + "flaubert", + "fleming", + "ford", + "ford hermann hueffer", + "ford madox ford", + "forester", + "fourth earl of orford", + "france", + "frances eliza hodgson burnett", + "frances hodgson burnett", + "francis richard stockton", + "francis scott key fitzgerald", + 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+ "gogol", + "golding", + "goldsmith", + "gombrowicz", + "goncourt", + "gordimer", + "gore vidal", + "gorki", + "gorky", + "graham greene", + "grahame", + "grass", + "graves", + "greene", + "grey", + "grimm", + "gunter grass", + "gunter wilhelm grass", + "gustave flaubert", + "guy de maupassant", + "h. g. wells", + "h. h. munro", + "haggard", + "haldane", + "hale", + "haley", + "hall", + "hammett", + "hamsun", + "hans christian andersen", + "hardy", + "harold nicolson", + "harriet beecher stowe", + "harriet elizabeth beecher stowe", + "harriet wilson", + "harris", + "harry sinclair lewis", + "harte", + "hasek", + "hawthorne", + "hecht", + "hector hugh munro", + "heinlein", + "heinrich boell", + "heinrich theodor boell", + "helen adams keller", + "helen hunt jackson", + "helen keller", + "helen maria fiske hunt jackson", + "heller", + "hemingway", + "henri rene albert guy de maupassant", + "henry david thoreau", + "henry fielding", + "henry graham greene", + "henry james", + "henry miller", + "henry valentine miller", + "herbert george wells", + "herbert marshall mcluhan", + "herman melville", + "herman wouk", + "hermann hesse", + "hesse", + "heyse", + "heyward", + "higginson", + "hilaire belloc", + "hoffmann", + "holmes", + "horace walpole", + "horatio alger", + "horatio walpole", + "howard pyle", + "howells", + "hoyle", + "hubbard", + "hughes", + "hunt", + "huxley", + "ian fleming", + "ian lancaster fleming", + "ida m. tarbell", + "ida minerva tarbell", + "ida tarbell", + "ilya ehrenberg", + "ilya grigorievich ehrenberg", + "imamu amiri baraka", + "iris murdoch", + "irving", + "isaac asimov", + "isaac bashevis singer", + "isak dinesen", + "isherwood", + "israel zangwill", + "italo calvino", + "ivan sergeevich turgenev", + "ivan turgenev", + "izaak walton", + "j. d. salinger", + "j.r.r. tolkien", + "jack kerouac", + "jack london", + "jackson", + "jacobs", + "jacques anatole francois thibault", + "jakob grimm", + "jakob ludwig karl grimm", + "james", + "james albert michener", + "james arthur baldwin", + "james augustine aloysius joyce", + "james baldwin", + "james boswell", + "james branch cabell", + "james fenimore cooper", + "james henry leigh hunt", + "james joyce", + "james langston hughes", + "james michener", + "james thomas farrell", + "james thomas harris", + "jane austen", + "jane jacobs", + "jaroslav hasek", + "jean-jacques rousseau", + "jean-louis lebris de kerouac", + "jean cocteau", + "jean de la fontaine", + "jensen", + "jerome david salinger", + "jessica lucy mitford", + "jessica mitford", + "joan didion", + "joel chandler harris", + "joel harris", + "johann christoph friedrich von schiller", + "johannes vilhelm jensen", + "john addington symonds", + "john barrington wain", + "john barth", + "john bunyan", + "john cheever", + "john cowper powys", + "john dos passos", + "john ernst steinbeck", + "john galsworthy", + "john griffith chaney", + "john henry o'hara", + "john hoyer updike", + "john irving", + "john le carre", + "john lyly", + "john marquand", + "john philip marquand", + "john roderigo dos passos", + "john ronald reuel tolkien", + "john simmons barth", + "john steinbeck", + "john updike", + "john wain", + "johnson", + "jong", + "jorge borges", + "jorge luis borges", + "jorge mario pedro vargas llosa", + "joseph conrad", + "joseph heller", + "joseph hilaire peter belloc", + "joseph rudyard kipling", + "joyce", + "joyce carol oates", + "jules alfred huot de goncourt", + "jules de goncourt", + "jules verne", + "kafka", + "kahlil gibran", + "karel capek", + "karen blixen", + "karl gjellerup", + "kate chopin", + "kate o'flaherty chopin", + "katherine anne porter", + "katherine mansfield", + "kathleen mansfield beauchamp", + "kay boyle", + "keller", + "ken elton kesey", + "ken kesey", + "kenneth grahame", + "kenneth roberts", + "kerouac", + "kesey", + "kipling", + "knut hamsun", + "knut pedersen", + "koestler", + "kurt vonnegut", + "l. m. montgomery", + "l. ron hubbard", + "la fontaine", + "la rochefoucauld", + "langston hughes", + "lardner", + "laurence sterne", + "lawrence", + "lawrence durrell", + "lawrence george durrell", + "lawrence of arabia", + "le carre", + "leigh hunt", + "leo tolstoy", + "leonard", + "lermontov", + "leroi jones", + "lessing", + "lewis", + "lewis carroll", + "liam o'flaherty", + "llewelyn powys", + "london", + "louis aragon", + "louis auchincloss", + "louis charles alfred de musset", + "louis stanton auchincloss", + "louis untermeyer", + "lowry", + "lucy maud montgomery", + "lyly", + "lyman frank brown", + "lytton", + "madame de stael", + "mailer", + "maksim gorky", + "malamud", + "malcolm lowry", + "malory", + "malraux", + "mann", + "mansfield", + "manzoni", + "margaret mitchell", + "margaret munnerlyn mitchell", + "marguerite radclyffe hall", + "marie henri beyle", + "mario vargas llosa", + "mark twain", + "marquand", + "marquis de sade", + "marsh", + "marshall mcluhan", + "martha beatrice potter webb", + "mary ann evans", + "mary augusta arnold ward", + "mary flannery o'connor", + "mary godwin wollstonecraft shelley", + "mary mccarthy", + "mary shelley", + "mary therese mccarthy", + "mary wollstonecraft", + "mary wollstonecraft godwin", + "mary wollstonecraft shelley", + "mason", + "maugham", + "maupassant", + "mauriac", + "maurois", + "max beerbohm", + "maxim gorki", + "mccarthy", + "mccullers", + "mcluhan", + "melville", + "merton", + "michael ondaatje", + "michel eyquem montaigne", + "michel montaigne", + "michener", + "mickey spillane", + "miguel de cervantes", + "miguel de cervantes saavedra", + "mikhail yurievich lermontov", + "miller", + "milne", + "mitchell", + "mitford", + "montaigne", + "montgomery", + "mordecai richler", + "more", + "morrison", + "mrs. henry wood", + "mrs. humphrey ward", + "munro", + "murdoch", + "muriel sarah spark", + "muriel spark", + "musset", + "nabokov", + "nadine gordimer", + "nancy freeman mitford", + "nancy mitford", + "nash", + "nathaniel hawthorne", + "nelson algren", + "nevil shute", + "nevil shute norway", + "ngaio marsh", + "nicolson", + "nikolai vasilievich gogol", + "norman mailer", + "norris", + "o'brien", + "o'connor", + "o'flaherty", + "o'hara", + "o. henry", + "oates", + "ogden nash", + "oliver goldsmith", + "oliver wendell holmes", + "ondaatje", + "orczy", + "orwell", + "oscar fingal o'flahertie wills wilde", + "oscar wilde", + "owen wister", + "p. g. wodehouse", + "page", + "parker", + "pasternak", + "paton", + "patrick victor martindale white", + "patrick white", + "paul heyse", + "paul johann ludwig von heyse", + "pearl buck", + "pearl sydenstricker buck", + "pelham grenville wodehouse", + "percy", + "petronius", + "petronius arbiter", + "philip michael ondaatje", + "philip milton roth", + "philip roth", + "plath", + "pliny", + "pliny the elder", + "pliny the younger", + "poe", + "porter", + "post", + "pound", + "powys", + "pyle", + "pynchon", + "rabindranath tagore", + "radclyffe hall", + "ralph ellison", + "ralph waldo ellison", + "ralph waldo emerson", + "rand", + "ray bradbury", + "ray douglas bradbury", + "raymond chandler", + "raymond thornton chandler", + "rebecca west", + "reverend dodgson", + "richard horatio edgar wallace", + "richard wright", + "richler", + "rider haggard", + "ring lardner", + "ringgold wilmer lardner", + "robert a. heinlein", + "robert anson heinlein", + "robert benchley", + "robert charles benchley", + "robert graves", + "robert louis balfour stevenson", + "robert louis stevenson", + "robert penn warren", + "robert ranke graves", + "robert william service", + "roberts", + "roosevelt", + "roth", + "rousseau", + "rudyard kipling", + "runyon", + "rushdie", + "russell", + "s. s. van dine", + "sade", + "saki", + "salinger", + "salman rushdie", + "samuel beckett", + "samuel butler", + "samuel dashiell hammett", + "samuel johnson", + "samuel langhorne clemens", + "sand", + "sandburg", + "saroyan", + "saul bellow", + "sayers", + "schiller", + "scott", + "service", + "shalom asch", + "shaw", + "shelley", + "sherwood anderson", + "sholem asch", + "sholom asch", + "shute", + "sidonie-gabrielle claudine colette", + "sidonie-gabrielle colette", + "sigrid undset", + "simenon", + "simone de beauvoir", + "sinclair", + "sinclair lewis", + "singer", + "sir angus wilson", + "sir arthur conan doyle", + "sir harold george nicolson", + "sir henry maxmilian beerbohm", + "sir henry rider haggard", + "sir leslie stephen", + "sir rabindranath tagore", + "sir richrd steele", + "sir thomas malory", + "sir thomas more", + "sir walter scott", + "sir william gerald golding", + "sir winston leonard spenser churchill", + "smollett", + "snow", + "solomon bellow", + "solzhenitsyn", + "somerset maugham", + "sontag", + "spark", + "spillane", + "stael", + "steele", + "stefan zweig", + "stein", + "steinbeck", + "stendhal", + "stephen", + "stephen crane", + "sterne", + "stevenson", + "stockton", + "stoker", + "stowe", + "styron", + "sue", + "susan sontag", + "sylvia plath", + "symonds", + "t. e. lawrence", + "tagore", + "a. a. milne", + "teodor josef konrad korzeniowski", + "thackeray", + "theodor seuss geisel", + "theodore dreiser", + "theodore francis powys", + "theodore herman albert dreiser", + "thomas clayton wolfe", + "thomas de quincey", + "thomas edward lawrence", + "thomas hardy", + "thomas higginson", + "thomas kennerly wolfe jr.", + "thomas malory", + "thomas mann", + "thomas merton", + "thomas more", + "thomas nelson page", + "thomas pynchon", + "thomas wentworth storrow higginson", + "thomas wolfe", + "thoreau", + "thornton niven wilder", + "thornton wilder", + "tobias george smollett", + "tobias smollett", + "tocqueville", + "toklas", + "tolkien", + "tolstoy", + "tom wolfe", + "toni morrison", + "trollope", + "turgenev", + "undset", + "untermeyer", + "updike", + "upton beall sinclair", + "upton sinclair", + "van doren", + "vargas llosa", + "verne", + "vicomte de chateaubriand", + "vidal", + "virginia woolf", + "vladimir nabokov", + "vladimir vladimirovich nabokov", + "voltaire", + "vonnegut", + 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"manchester", + "mandalay", + "mannheim", + "maracaibo", + "maracay", + "marrakech", + "marrakesh", + "marseille", + "marseilles", + "mashhad", + "matamoros", + "mawlamyine", + "mazar-i-sharif", + "mazatlan", + "mbeya", + "medan", + "medellin", + "medina", + "memel", + "memphis", + "merida", + "mesa", + "meshed", + "messina", + "mexicali", + "miami", + "miami beach", + "milan", + "milano", + "milwaukee", + "minneapolis", + "mobile", + "molotov", + "mombasa", + "montego bay", + "monterrey", + "montreal", + "morgantown", + "moron", + "mosul", + "motor city", + "motown", + "moukden", + "moulmein", + "muenchen", + "mukalla", + "mukden", + "mumbai", + "munich", + "murmansk", + "mwanza", + "mycenae", + "mysore", + "nablus", + "nagano", + "nagasaki", + "nagoya", + "naha city", + "nakuru", + "nalchik", + "namur", + "nan-chang", + "nan-ning", + "nanchang", + "nancy", + "nanjing", + "nanking", + "nanning", + "nantes", + "naples", + "napoli", + "natal", + "new delhi", + "new haven", + "new 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"the upper stories" + ] + }, + { + "definition": "piece of leather or synthetic material that forms the part of a shoe or boot above the sole that encases the foot", + "partOfSpeech": "noun", + "typeOf": [ + "piece of leather" + ], + "hasTypes": [ + "toe box" + ], + "hasParts": [ + "quarter", + "vamp" + ], + "partOf": [ + "boot", + "shoe" + ] + }, + { + "definition": "superior in rank or accomplishment", + "partOfSpeech": "adjective", + "similarTo": [ + "superior" + ], + "examples": [ + "the upper half of the class" + ] + }, + { + "definition": "the topmost one of two", + "partOfSpeech": "adjective", + "similarTo": [ + "top" + ] + } + ], + "syllables": { + "count": 2, + "list": [ + "up", + "per" + ] + }, + "pronunciation": { + "all": "'əpər" + }, + "frequency": 4.12 + }, + { + "word": "interfere", + "results": [ + { + "definition": "get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force", + "partOfSpeech": "verb", + "synonyms": [ + "interpose", + 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+ "disputant", + "dissenter", + "dissident", + "divider", + "doer", + "domestic partner", + "doormat", + "double", + "doubter", + "dresser", + "dribbler", + "driveller", + "drooler", + "drug user", + "dupe", + "dweller", + "dyslectic", + "dyslexic", + "eccentric", + "eccentric person", + "ectomorph", + "effecter", + "effector", + "ejector", + "elizabethan", + "emotional person", + "emulator", + "endomorph", + "engineer", + "enjoyer", + "enrollee", + "entertainer", + "equal", + "eristic", + "essayer", + "ethnic", + "excuser", + "expectorator", + "experimenter", + "expert", + "explorer", + "exponent", + "extravert", + "extrovert", + "face", + "faddist", + "faller", + "fastener", + "female", + "female person", + "fiduciary", + "fighter", + "first-rater", + "fish", + "flake", + "fleer", + "follower", + "forerunner", + "forgiver", + "free agent", + "free spirit", + "freewheeler", + "friend", + "fugitive", + "gainer", + "gambler", + "gatekeeper", + "gatherer", + "gay", + "geek", + "gem", + 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"lion", + "literate", + "literate person", + "liver", + "longer", + "look-alike", + "loose cannon", + "loved one", + "lover", + "machine", + "mailer", + "maimer", + "malcontent", + "male", + "male person", + "man", + "man jack", + "mangler", + "manipulator", + "married", + "masturbator", + "match", + "measurer", + "mediocrity", + "mesomorph", + "mestizo", + "middlebrow", + "miracle man", + "miracle worker", + "misfit", + "misogamist", + "mixed-blood", + "modern", + "modifier", + "mollycoddler", + "money dealer", + "money handler", + "monolingual", + "mother hen", + "mouse", + "mover and shaker", + "muscle-builder", + "muscle builder", + "musclebuilder", + "muscleman", + "mutilator", + "namer", + "namesake", + "national", + "native", + "native american", + "needer", + "neglecter", + "negro", + "negroid", + "neighbor", + "neighbour", + "neutral", + "noncompliant", + "nondescript", + "nondrinker", + "nonmember", + "nonparticipant", + "nonpartisan", + "nonpartizan", + "nonperson", + 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argenteum", + "halimodendron halodendron", + "hamelia", + "haw", + "hawthorn", + "hazardia cana", + "he-huckleberry", + "heath", + "hediondilla", + "helianthemum", + "hemp", + "hercules'-club", + "hermannia verticillata", + "heteromeles arbutifolia", + "hibiscus farragei", + "hiccough nut", + "hiccup nut", + "highbush cranberry", + "himalaya honeysuckle", + "hoary golden bush", + "holly-leaves barberry", + "hollygrape", + "honey-flower", + "honey bell", + "honeybells", + "honeyflower", + "honeysuckle", + "horsebean", + "hovea", + "huckleberry", + "huckleberry oak", + "hydrangea", + "ilex cornuta", + "impala lily", + "indian currant", + "indian rhododendron", + "indigo", + "indigo plant", + "indigofera tinctoria", + "irish gorse", + "jacquinia armillaris", + "jacquinia keyensis", + "japan allspice", + "japanese allspice", + "japanese andromeda", + "japanese angelica tree", + "jasmine", + "jerusalem thorn", + "joewood", + "joint fir", + "jujube", + "jujube bush", + "juneberry", + 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lucida", + "lyonia mariana", + "lysiloma sabicu", + "madagascar plum", + "mahernia verticillata", + "mahonia aquifolium", + "mahonia nervosa", + "maikoa", + "makomako", + "male berry", + "maleberry", + "mallow", + "malosma laurina", + "manzanita", + "marlberry", + "marmalade bush", + "marsh tea", + "mastic", + "mastic tree", + "matrimony vine", + "mayflower", + "medinilla magnifica", + "melastoma malabathricum", + "menziesia ferruginea", + "menziesia pilosa", + "mesquit", + "mesquite", + "microstrobos niphophilus", + "milk thistle", + "mimosa", + "minnie bush", + "minniebush", + "mock azalia", + "mock privet", + "moose-wood", + "moosewood", + "moss locust", + "mountain andromeda", + "mountain azalea", + "mountain devil", + "mountain fetterbush", + "mountain grape", + "mountain rimu", + "mucuna", + "mule fat", + "mutisia", + "myrica gale", + "myricaria germanica", + "mysore thorn", + "naranjilla", + "native cranberry", + "native holly", + "native pear", + "needle-bush", + "needle-wood", + "needle bush", + "needle wood", + "needlebush", + "needlewood", + "negro peach", + "nero's crown", + "new zealand wine berry", + "night jasmine", + "night jessamine", + "ochna serrulata", + "oleaster", + "ordeal tree", + "oregon grape", + "oregon holly grape", + "othonna", + "rhododendron", + "acalypha virginica", + "acocanthera oblongifolia", + "acocanthera oppositifolia", + "acocanthera spectabilis", + "acocanthera venenata", + "adam's apple", + "adenium multiflorum", + "adenium obesum", + "winter sweet", + "wintera colorata", + "witch alder", + "witch hazel", + "witch hazel plant", + "woody pear", + "wych hazel", + "wych hazel plant", + "xylomelum pyriforme", + "xylosma", + "xylosma congestum", + "yellow oleander", + "yerba santa", + "yucca", + "ziziphus jujuba", + "ziziphus lotus", + "zygophyllum fabago", + "pachouli", + "paliurus spina-christi", + "palma christ", + "palma christi", + "paloverde", + "papoose root", + "papooseroot", + "parkinsonia aculeata", + "patchouli", + 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"pyxie", + "quercus vaccinifolia", + "radyera farragei", + "raetam", + "ramontchi", + "rauvolfia", + "rauwolfia", + "red gram", + "red angel's trumpet", + "red shrubby penstemon", + "redwood penstemon", + "retama raetam", + "retem", + "abelia", + "rhus laurina", + "ribes grossularia", + "ribes uva-crispa", + "ricinus communis", + "robinia hispida", + "rock rose", + "rockrose", + "rooibos", + "ropebark", + "rose", + "rose acacia", + "rosebush", + "ruscus aculeatus", + "russian cactus", + "russian thistle", + "russian tumbleweed", + "sabicu", + "salal", + "salsola kali", + "salsola kali tenuifolia", + "salsola soda", + "salt tree", + "saltbush", + "saltwort", + "sand cherry", + "sand myrtle", + "santolina chamaecyparissus", + "sarcobatus vermiculatus", + "sarcocephalus esculentus", + "sarcocephalus latifolius", + "schefflera actinophylla", + "schizophragma hydrangeoides", + "scotch gale", + "screw tree", + "sea eryngium", + "sea holly", + "sea holm", + "semaphore plant", + "senecio 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sativa", + "eruca vesicaria sativa", + "eryngium aquaticum", + "esparcet", + "ethiopian banana", + "eupatorium aya-pana", + "eupatorium cannabinum", + "eupatorium capillifolium", + "eupatorium maculatum", + "eupatorium perfoliatum", + "eupatorium purpureum", + "eupatorium rugosum", + "evening primrose", + "fagopyrum esculentum", + "false bugbane", + "false foxglove", + "false gromwell", + "false miterwort", + "false mitrewort", + "false nettle", + "false rue", + "false rue anemone", + "false saffron", + "feabane mullet", + "fennel", + "fenugreek", + "fetid horehound", + "feverfew", + "feverroot", + "fiesta flower", + "flame-flower", + "flame flower", + "flame nettle", + "flameflower", + "flannel leaf", + "flax", + "fleabane", + "foamflower", + "forget-me-not", + "foxglove", + "frasera speciosa", + "fraxinella", + "fringepod", + "fumaria officinalis", + "fumeroot", + "fumewort", + "fumitory", + "galax", + "galax urceolata", + "galaxy", + "galega officinalis", + "galeopsis tetrahit", + 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pulegioides", + "hedge mustard", + "hedge nettle", + "helmetflower", + "hemp agrimony", + "hemp nettle", + "henbane", + "hepatica", + "heracleum sphondylium", + "herb mercury", + "herb of grace", + "herb paris", + "herbage", + "herbs mercury", + "hibiscus esculentus", + "hoary alison", + "hoary alyssum", + "hoary puccoon", + "hogweed", + "holy clover", + "holy thistle", + "homogyne alpina", + "honesty", + "horehound", + "horse balm", + "horse gentian", + "horse parsley", + "horse radish", + "horseradish", + "horseweed", + "hound's-tongue", + "hugueninia tanacetifolia", + "husk tomato", + "hydrastis canadensis", + "hyoscyamus muticus", + "hyoscyamus niger", + "hyssop", + "hyssopus officinalis", + "illecebrum verticullatum", + "impatiens capensis", + "indian arrowroot", + "indian breadroot", + "indian lettuce", + "indian paint", + "indian plantain", + "indian rhubarb", + "inula", + "ironweed", + "isopyrum biternatum", + "jatropha stimulosus", + "jatropha urens", + "jewelweed", + "joe-pye weed", + "kangaroo's-foot", + "kangaroo's paw", + "kangaroo-foot plant", + "kangaroo paw", + "kidney vetch", + "kingcup", + "kniphofia", + "knob celery", + "krigia", + "laccopetalum giganteum", + "lacepod", + "ladies' tobacco", + "lady's-finger", + "lady's earrings", + "lady's thistle", + "lady's tobacco", + "lamb succory", + "large-flowered fiddleneck", + "legume", + "leguminous plant", + "lemon balm", + "leonotis leonurus", + "leonotis nepetaefolia", + "leonotis nepetifolia", + "leonurus cardiaca", + "leopard's-bane", + "leopard plant", + "leopardbane", + "lepidium alpina", + "lettuce", + "levisticum officinale", + "licorice", + "lion's-ear", + "lion's foot", + "liquorice", + "lithospermum canescens", + "lithospermum caroliniense", + "lithospermum officinale", + "liverleaf", + "loasa", + "lobelia", + "loosestrife", + "lotus tetragonolobus", + "lovage", + "love apple", + "lunaria annua", + "lycopersicon esculentum", + "lycopus americanus", + "lycopus europaeus", + "lycopus virginicus", + "lyre-flower", + "lyreflower", + "mad-dog skullcap", + "mad-dog weed", + "mad apple", + "madagascar periwinkle", + "mandragora officinarum", + "mandrake", + "maranta", + "marsh felwort", + "marsh milkweed", + "martynia", + "martynia annua", + "martynia arenaria", + "martynia fragrans", + "masterwort", + "matricaria chamomilla", + "matricaria inodorum", + "matricaria matricarioides", + "matricaria oreades", + "matricaria recutita", + "matricaria tchihatchewii", + "may apple", + "mayapple", + "medic", + "medick", + "melagueta pepper", + "melissa officinalis", + "mercurialis annua", + "mercurialis perennis", + "mertensia virginica", + "micromeria chamissonis", + "micromeria douglasii", + "micromeria juliana", + "milk thistle", + "milkweed", + "mint", + "mint geranium", + "miterwort", + "mitrewort", + "molucca balm", + "molucella laevis", + "monarda", + "monardella lanceolata", + "moneses uniflora", + "money plant", + "moon carrot", + "mother of thyme", + "motherwort", + "mountain mint", + "mouse-ear chickweed", + "mouse ear", + "mouse eared chickweed", + "mullein", + "musa ensete", + "mustang mint", + "myosotis scorpiodes", + "myosotis sylvatica", + "myrrhis odorata", + "nabalus serpentarius", + "nasturtium", + "nemophila", + "nemophila aurita", + "nemophila menziesii", + "nepeta cataria", + "new zealand spinach", + "nicandra physaloides", + "nierembergia", + "nin-sin", + "okra", + "okra plant", + "old maid", + "one-flowered pyrola", + "one-flowered wintergreen", + "onobrychis viciaefolia", + "onobrychis viciifolia", + "orach", + "orache", + "orange balsam", + "origanum", + "our lady's mild thistle", + "oxalis", + "oyster plant", + "packera aurea", + "panax ginseng", + "panax pseudoginseng", + "panax quinquefolius", + "panax schinseng", + "parietaria difussa", + "paris quadrifolia", + "parochetus communis", + "parsley", + "parsnip", + "pastinaca sativa", + "pasturage", + "pellitory", + "pellitory-of-spain", + "pellitory-of-the-wall", + "peltiphyllum peltatum", + "pennyroyal", + "peperomia", + "perilla frutescens crispa", + "periwinkle", + "petasites fragrans", + "petasites hybridus", + "petasites sagitattus", + "petasites vulgaris", + "petroselinum crispum", + "phlox", + "pholistoma auritum", + "physostegia", + "pia", + "pica-pica", + "pickaback plant", + "piggyback plant", + "pimpernel", + "pimpinella anisum", + "pineapple", + "pineapple plant", + "pineapple weed", + "pipsissewa", + "plantain", + "plantain lily", + "plumbago", + "podophyllum peltatum", + "pokeweed", + "polanisia dodecandra", + "polanisia graveolens", + "polemonium", + "polygonum fagopyrum", + "pomme blanche", + "pomme de prairie", + "poterium sanguisorba", + "prairie mimosa", + "prenanthes purpurea", + "prenanthes serpentaria", + "prickle-weed", + "prickly poppy", + "primrose", + "primula", + "prince's pine", + "pritzelago alpina", + "proboscidea arenaria", + "proboscidea fragrans", + "proboscidea louisianica", + "proboscis flower", + "prunella vulgaris", + "psoralea esculenta", + "pteropogon", + "pteropogon humboltianum", + "puccoon", + "pulicaria dysenterica", + "purple boneset", + "purslane", + "pussytoes", + "pyramid plant", + "pyrethrum", + "pyrola", + "pyrola uniflora", + "ram's horn", + "raoulia australis", + "raoulia lutescens", + "rattlebox", + "rattlesnake root", + "rayless chamomile", + "red cole", + "red dagga", + "red fox", + "red periwinkle", + "redroot", + "reseda", + "rhubarb", + "rhubarb plant", + "richweed", + "rock purslane", + "rocket", + "rocket salad", + "rockfoil", + "root celery", + "roquette", + "rose periwinkle", + "rosemary", + "rosinweed", + "rosmarinus officinalis", + "rue", + "ruta graveolens", + "safflower", + "sage", + "sainfoin", + "salad burnet", + "salicornia europaea", + "salpiglossis", + "salsify", + "salvia", + "samphire", + "sand devil's claw", + "sanfoin", + "sang", + "sanguinaria canadensis", + "sanicle", + "sanvitalia procumbens", + "satin flower", + "satinpod", + "satureja acinos", + "satureja douglasii", + "satureja vulgaris", + "saussurea costus", + "saussurea lappa", + "savory", + "sawwort", + "saxifrage", + "scentless camomile", + "scentless false camomile", + "scentless hayweed", + "scentless mayweed", + "scopolia carniolica", + "scorzonera", + "scorzonera hispanica", + "scutellaria lateriflora", + "sea-rocket", + "sea cole", + "sea kale", + "sea milkwort", + "sea trifoly", + "sedum", + "self-heal", + "senecio aureus", + "senna marilandica", + "serratula tinctoria", + "sesame", + "sesamum indicum", + "shamrock pea", + "sheep plant", + "shoo fly", + "silkweed", + "silver dollar", + "silybum marianum", + "simple", + "sison amomum", + "sisymbrium officinale", + "sisymbrium tanacetifolia", + "skullcap", + "smyrnium olusatrum", + "snakeroot", + "sneezeweed", + "solanum melongena", + "sorrel", + "sour grass", + "spiderflower", + "spiderwort", + "spotted joe-pye weed", + "spurge nettle", + "squirrel corn", + "stachys palustris", + "stachys sylvatica", + "stapelia", + "starfish flower", + "stevia", + "stickweed", + "stinking horehound", + "stinking nightshade", + "stone-root", + "stone cress", + "stone parsley", + "stone root", + "stonecress", + "stoneroot", + "strawberry", + "strelitzia reginae", + "succory", + "suksdorfia", + "sweet balm", + "sweet cicely", + "sweet coltsfoot", + "sweet false chamomile", + "sweet unicorn plant", + "swertia perennia", + "swertia speciosa", + "tacca leontopetaloides", + "tacca pinnatifida", + "tailwort", + "tanacetum balsamita", + "tanacetum camphoratum", + "tanacetum cinerariifolium", + "tanacetum parthenium", + "tansy-leaved rocket", + "tansy mustard", + "tarweed", + "tassel flower", + "teasel", + "teasle", + "teazel", + "tetragonia expansa", + "tetragonia tetragonioides", + "tetterwort", + "thorny amaranth", + "thoroughwort", + "thyme", + "tiarella cordifolia", + "tick-weed", + "tickseed", + "tickweed", + "tinker's root", + "tobacco", + "tobacco plant", + "tolmiea menziesii", + "tomato", + "tomato plant", + "touch-me-not", + "tragopogon porrifolius", + "trautvetteria carolinensis", + "tread-softly", + "trefoil", + "trigonella foenumgraecum", + "trigonella ornithopodioides", + "trilisa odoratissima", + "triostium perfoliatum", + "tripleurospermum inodorum", + "tripleurospermum oreades tchihatchewii", + "tripleurospermum tchihatchewii", + "tritoma", + "trumpet weed", + "turfing daisy", + "turmeric", + "turmeric root", + "turnip-rooted celery", + "tussilago alpina", + "tussilago farfara", + "umbellifer", + "umbelliferous plant", + "umbrella plant", + "vegetable", + "vegetable oyster" + ], + "hasParts": [ + "veggie", + "veg", + "vegetable" + ], + "derivation": [ + "herbal" + ] + }, + { + "definition": "aromatic potherb used in cookery for its savory qualities", + "partOfSpeech": "noun", + "typeOf": [ + "flavoring", + "flavourer", + "flavouring", + "seasoning", + "seasoner", + "flavorer" + ], + "hasTypes": [ + "coriander", + "savory", + "chervil", + "lovage", + "savoury", + "healing herb", + "lemon balm", + 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addington symonds", + "john barrington wain", + "john barth", + "john bunyan", + "john cheever", + "john cowper powys", + "john dos passos", + "john ernst steinbeck", + "john galsworthy", + "john griffith chaney", + "john henry o'hara", + "john hoyer updike", + "john irving", + "john le carre", + "john lyly", + "john marquand", + "john philip marquand", + "john roderigo dos passos", + "john ronald reuel tolkien", + "john simmons barth", + "john steinbeck", + "john updike", + "john wain", + "johnson", + "jong", + "jorge borges", + "jorge luis borges", + "jorge mario pedro vargas llosa", + "joseph conrad", + "joseph heller", + "joseph hilaire peter belloc", + "joseph rudyard kipling", + "joyce", + "joyce carol oates", + "jules alfred huot de goncourt", + "jules de goncourt", + "jules verne", + "kafka", + "kahlil gibran", + "karel capek", + "karen blixen", + "karl gjellerup", + "kate chopin", + "kate o'flaherty chopin", + "katherine anne porter", + "katherine mansfield", + "kathleen mansfield beauchamp", + "kay boyle", + "keller", + "ken elton kesey", + "ken kesey", + "kenneth grahame", + "kenneth roberts", + "kerouac", + "kesey", + "kipling", + "knut hamsun", + "knut pedersen", + "koestler", + "kurt vonnegut", + "l. m. montgomery", + "l. ron hubbard", + "la fontaine", + "la rochefoucauld", + "langston hughes", + "lardner", + "laurence sterne", + "lawrence", + "lawrence durrell", + "lawrence george durrell", + "lawrence of arabia", + "le carre", + "leigh hunt", + "leo tolstoy", + "leonard", + "lermontov", + "leroi jones", + "lessing", + "lewis", + "lewis carroll", + "liam o'flaherty", + "llewelyn powys", + "london", + "louis aragon", + "louis auchincloss", + "louis charles alfred de musset", + "louis stanton auchincloss", + "louis untermeyer", + "lowry", + "lucy maud montgomery", + "lyly", + "lyman frank brown", + "lytton", + "madame de stael", + "mailer", + "maksim gorky", + "malamud", + "malcolm lowry", + "malory", + "malraux", + "mann", + "mansfield", + 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michael ondaatje", + "philip milton roth", + "philip roth", + "plath", + "pliny", + "pliny the elder", + "pliny the younger", + "poe", + "porter", + "post", + "pound", + "powys", + "pyle", + "pynchon", + "rabindranath tagore", + "radclyffe hall", + "ralph ellison", + "ralph waldo ellison", + "ralph waldo emerson", + "rand", + "ray bradbury", + "ray douglas bradbury", + "raymond chandler", + "raymond thornton chandler", + "rebecca west", + "reverend dodgson", + "richard horatio edgar wallace", + "richard wright", + "richler", + "rider haggard", + "ring lardner", + "ringgold wilmer lardner", + "robert a. heinlein", + "robert anson heinlein", + "robert benchley", + "robert charles benchley", + "robert graves", + "robert louis balfour stevenson", + "robert louis stevenson", + "robert penn warren", + "robert ranke graves", + "robert william service", + "roberts", + "roosevelt", + "roth", + "rousseau", + "rudyard kipling", + "runyon", + "rushdie", + "russell", + "s. s. van dine", + "sade", + 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"all": "'ɑrtə,fækt" + }, + "frequency": 2.49 + }, + { + "word": "august", + "results": [ + { + "definition": "profoundly honored", + "partOfSpeech": "adjective", + "synonyms": [ + "revered", + "venerable" + ], + "similarTo": [ + "honorable", + "honourable" + ] + }, + { + "definition": "of or befitting a lord", + "partOfSpeech": "adjective", + "synonyms": [ + "grand", + "lordly" + ], + "similarTo": [ + "noble" + ], + "examples": [ + "of august lineage" + ] + }, + { + "definition": "the month following July and preceding September", + "partOfSpeech": "noun", + "synonyms": [ + "aug" + ], + "typeOf": [ + "gregorian calendar month" + ], + "hasParts": [ + "feast of dormition", + "august 15", + "assumption of mary", + "assumption", + "mid-august", + "dormition" + ], + "partOf": [ + "gregorian calendar", + "new style calendar" + ] + } + ], + "syllables": { + "count": 2, + "list": [ + "au", + "gust" + ] + }, + "pronunciation": { + "all": "ɔ'ɡəst" + }, + "frequency": 4.24 + } + ] +} \ No newline at end of file From a26250fbe392dfd8e4684a109df9cf74bf51ab94 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Xavi Lee Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 23:44:56 +0800 Subject: [PATCH 4/4] update --- scripts/python-requirements/requirements.txt | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/python-requirements/requirements.txt b/scripts/python-requirements/requirements.txt index 088583e..1fd574e 100644 --- a/scripts/python-requirements/requirements.txt +++ b/scripts/python-requirements/requirements.txt @@ -1,3 +1,2 @@ python-docx pymysql -beautifulsoup4