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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# Install translate-shell before using this script:
+# https://github.com/soimort/translate-shell
+# Use `brew install translate-shell` on Mac OS X.
+
+# There is a rate-limit for Google which can be work-arounded by using
+# another IP or IPv6.
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+DELIM=${DELIM:-:}
+
+case $# in
+  1) SRC=en
+     WORD="$1"
+     ;;
+  2) SRC="$1"
+     WORD="$2"
+     ;;
+  *) echo "Usage: [DELIM=' = '] $0 word_or_text_in_English"
+     echo "       or"
+     echo "       [DELIM=' = '] $0 source_language_code word_or_text_in_given_language"
+     exit 1
+     ;;
+esac
+
+# Note: default Google engine doesn't properly support European Portuguese (pt-PT)
+# and always produces Brazilian translations. Need to use Deepl.
+LANGUAGES=( en ar be bg cs da de el es fa 'fi' fr he hu id it ja ko nb nl pl pt-PT pt-BR ro ru sk sv sw th tr uk vi zh-CN zh-TW )
+
+for lang in "${LANGUAGES[@]}"; do
+  TRANSLATION=$(trans -b "$SRC:$lang" "$WORD" | sed 's/   *//')
+  # Correct language codes to ours.
+  case $lang in
+    zh-CN) lang="zh-Hans" ;;
+    zh-TW) lang="zh-Hant" ;;
+    pt-PT) lang="pt"      ;;
+  esac
+  echo "$lang:$(tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]' <<< "${TRANSLATION:0:1}")${TRANSLATION:1}"
+  # To avoid quota limits.
+  sleep 1
+done