本文以卫三畏(Samuel Wells Williams)1844年在澳门出版的《英华韵府历阶》为例,探讨当时外国传教士编纂的汉英词典中出现的一些有趣的过渡现象——该书收入的字词,虽全部标以官音,但部分字词只在粤语或某些方言区通用;此外,在通用的汉语拼音系统出现之前,该书亦肩负起逐步建立起一套适用于各种中国方言的拉丁字母拼音系统的使命。 This article takes Samuel Wells Williams’s “Uprising of Uhwa Raffles” published in Macao in 1844 as an example to explore some interesting transitional phenomena in the Chinese-English dictionaries compiled by foreign missionaries at the time - Of the words, all marked with the official tone, but some of the words only in Cantonese or dialect area common; In addition, before the emergence of the universal Chinese pinyin, the book also shoulder the progressive establishment of a set suitable for a variety of Chinese dialect Latin alphabet Pinyin system mission.