transcribe
verbVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they transcribe | |
| he / she / it transcribes | |
| past simple transcribed | |
| past participle transcribed | |
| -ing form transcribing |
to record thoughts, speech or data in a written form, or in a different written form from the original 记录；抄录；把…转成（另一种书写形式） - transcribe something (specialist)
to show the sounds of speech using a special phonetic alphabet 用音标标音 - transcribe something (for something)
to write a piece of music in a different form so that it can be played by a different musical instrument or sung by a different voice 改编（乐曲，以适合其他乐器或声部） a piano piece transcribed for the guitar 为吉他改编的钢琴曲
Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘make a copy in writing’): from Latin transcribere, from trans- ‘across’ + scribere ‘write’.