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-# FreeDict —— 自由双语词典
+FreeDict - free bilingual dictionaries
+=======================================
 
-FreeDict 项目旨在提供自由（开源）的词典数据库，供人与机器共同使用。其官方主页为 <https://freedict.org>，您可在该处找到词典使用与开发的文档。
+The FreeDict project aims at providing free (open source) dictionary databases,
+to be used both by humans and machines.
+The official home is at <https://freedict.org>, where you can find documentation
+for dictionary usage and development.
 
-## 词典来源
+Dictionary Sources
+-------
 
-本仓库仅收录人工编写的词典，并非 FreeDict 的官方源。请访问 <https://freedict.org/downloads> 查看全部来源，或访问 <https://download.freedict.org/generated> 查看导入/自动生成的词典。
+This repository only contains dictionaries which are manually written. It is
+**not** the official FreeDict source. Please visit
+<https://freedict.org/downloads> to view all sources or
+<https://download.freedict.org/generated> for the imported/generated ones.
 
-## 开发
+Development
+-----------
 
-所有词典均以 [TEI（第 5 版）][tei_v5] 编码，这是一种灵活的用于记录人类语言的 XML 格式。FreeDict 项目既提供词典，也提供样式表，可将 TEI 数据库转换为人类可读的格式。
+All dictionaries are encoded in [TEI (version 5)][tei_v5] which is a
+flexible XML format to encode human speech. The FreeDict project
+provides dictionaries but also style sheets to convert the TEI
+databases into human-readable formats.
 
-目前支持 [dict 格式][dict] 与 [SLOB 格式][slob]。
+At the moment, the [dict format][dict] and the [SLOB format][slob] are
+supported.
 
-开发文档见我们的 wiki：<https://github.com/freedict/fd-dictionaries/wiki>。
+The development documentation is in our wiki at
+<https://github.com/freedict/fd-dictionaries/wiki>.
 
-## 安装
+Installation
+------------
 
-您可在 Debian 系 GNU/Linux 发行版（以及 Ubuntu、Mint 等衍生发行版）与 Arch Linux 上安装预编译的词典，请查阅您的包管理器。
+You can install precompiled dictionaries on GNU/Linux distributions like Debian
+(and all derived distributions as Ubuntu, Mint, etc.) and Arch Linux. Please
+have a look at your package manager.
 
-若仍希望从源码构建且不愿阅读 wiki，以下是快速上手指南：
+If you still want to build from source and you don't want to read the wiki,
+here's a really quick getting started guide:
+
+-   Get <https://github.com/freedict/tools>, clone it to a path without spaces
+    and set an environment variable called `FREEDICT_TOOLS` pointing there.
+-   Change to your dictionary, try `make help`. For building `make` should be
+    enough, at least if you have both tei2slob and xsltproc installed. It's also
+    possible to disable some of the output formats, ask our friendly buildsystem
+    for help: `make help`.
 
--   获取 <https://github.com/freedict/tools>，将其克隆至不含空格的路径，并设置名为 `FREEDICT_TOOLS` 的环境变量指向该路径。
--   切换至您的词典目录，尝试 `make help`。构建时通常只需 `make`（前提是已安装 tei2slob 与 xsltproc）。亦可禁用部分输出格式，向友好的构建系统求助：`make help`。
 
   [dict]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DICT
   [slob]: https://github.com/itkach/slob/wiki/Dictionaries
   [tei_v5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_Encoding_Initiative
-
-## 关于本镜像
-
-本仓库系 freedict/fd-dictionaries 的忠实镜像。原项目以 GPL-3.0-or-later 许可发布（FreeDict 项目政策），著作权归原作者所有。上游版本系经 codeload 解压获得，本镜像未保留本地 git 历史；抓取于 2026-10-02；来源与完整许可见本仓 LICENSE。