编写于16世纪末叶的《葡汉词典》(Dicionário Português-Chinês)是已知最早的欧汉双语词典稿本,载有近代葡汉两种语言文字的珍贵史料。近代中西词汇的大规模接触便始于此。早期西洋人学习汉语的努力、中国人把握西方语言的尝试、欧汉双语词典编纂的起步,以及中西文化、经济、技术接触之始的景象等,都可从这部词典中约略窥知。 Dicionário Português-Chinês, compiled at the end of the 16th century, is the earliest known European-Chinese bilingual dictionary containing precious historical materials in both Portuguese and Chinese languages. The large-scale contact between modern Chinese and western vocabularies started here. The efforts of early Westerners to learn Chinese, the attempt of Chinese to grasp Western languages, the start of the compilation of European and Chinese bilingual dictionaries, and the beginnings of Chinese and Western cultures, economies and technological contacts can all be seen from this dictionary.