transpose
verb [often passive]- transpose something (formal)
to change the order of two or more things 使掉换顺序 Two letters were accidentally transposed and ‘gun’ got printed as ‘gnu’. 两个字母不小心被调换了位置，“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 使转移；使换位；使变形 The director transposes Shakespeare's play from 16th century Venice to present-day England. 导演把莎士比亚的戏剧从 16 世纪的威尼斯改成当代的英国。
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music 音乐 to write or play a piece of music or a series of notes in a different key 使（乐曲）变调，移调
Word Originlate Middle English (also in the sense ‘transform, convert’): from Old French transposer, from trans- ‘across’ + poser ‘to place’.