transpose
verb [often passive]- transpose something (formal)
to change the order of two or more things 使掉換順序 Two letters were accidentally transposed and ‘gun’ got printed as ‘gnu’. 兩個字母不小心被調換了位置，“gun”被印成了“gnu”。
- transpose something (from something) (to something) (formal)
to move or change something to a different place or environment or into a different form 使轉移；使換位；使變形 The director transposes Shakespeare's play from 16th century Venice to present-day England. 導演把莎士比亞的戲劇從 16 世紀的威尼斯改成當代的英國。
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music 音樂 to write or play a piece of music or a series of notes in a different key 使（樂曲）變調，移調
Word Originlate Middle English (also in the sense ‘transform, convert’): from Old French transposer, from trans- ‘across’ + poser ‘to place’.