Use PhantomJS to translate stdin to english using Google Translate. Useful as a textmate command or just a command line tool.

translate.js

#!/usr/bin/env phantomjs

var system = require('system');
var text = encodeURIComponent(system.stdin.read());
var url = "http://translate.google.com/#auto/en/" + text;
 
var page = require('webpage').create();
page.settings.userAgent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0';
 
page.onConsoleMessage = function (msg) {
  system.stdout.write(msg); 
};
 
page.open(url, function (status) {
  if (status !== 'success') {
    console.log('Unable to access network');
    return;
  }
  
  page.includeJs("http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.2/jquery.min.js", checkChange);

  function checkChange() {
    var done = page.evaluate(function () {
      var result = $('#result_box').text();
      if (result && result.trim() != ""){
        console.log(result);
        return true;
      }

      return false;
    });

    if (!done)
      checkChange();
    else
      phantom.exit();
  };
});