This script will save http://www.shanbay.com/wordlist/23/15930/ words to my local storage.

scrawl_my_dictionary.rb

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

require 'nokogiri'
require 'open-uri'
require 'sqlite3'

$db = SQLite3::Database.new "words.db"
begin
  rows = $db.execute <<-SQL
    create table words (
      id integer PRIMARY KEY autoincrement,
      word varchar(50),
      meaning varchar(100)
    );
  SQL
rescue SQLite3::SQLException
end

def fetch_page(id)
  url = "http://www.shanbay.com/wordlist/23/15930/?page=#{ id }"
  open(url) do |u|
    html = u.read
    doc = Nokogiri::HTML(html)
    doc.css('table.table-striped .row').each do |row|
      word = row.css('.span2 strong').inner_text
      meaning = row.css('.span10').inner_text
      record = $db.get_first_row("select * from words where word=?", word)
      if record.nil?
        $db.execute("insert into words(word, meaning) values(?,?)", word, meaning)
      end
      puts "#{ record.nil? } #{ word } : #{ meaning }"
    end
  end
end

(1..578).each do |i|
  puts i
  fetch_page(i)
end