柯林斯詞典transpose /tr?ns?p??z/ (transposing,transposed,transposes) 1. V-T If you transpose something from one place or situation to another, you move it there. 轉換 The director transposes the action from sixteenth-century France to post-Civil War America. 導縯把情節(jié)從16世紀的法國轉換到內戰(zhàn)後的美國。2. transpositionN-VAR ...a transposition of "Macbeth" to third century BC China. ...“麥尅白”到公元前三世紀的中國的轉換。3. V-T If you transpose two things, you reverse them or put them in each other's place. 對調 Many people inadvertently transpose digits of the ZIP code. 許多人粗心地把郵政編碼的數字弄顛倒了。4. transpositionN-VAR [oft N 'of' n] ...the transposition of the last two letters. ...最後兩個字母的對調。 返回 transpose劍橋詞典formal to change something from one position to another, or to exchange the positions of two things 使換位置;使互換位置 In their latest production they have reworked "King Lear", transposing it to pre-colonial Africa . 在最新的制作中,他們改編了《李爾王》,把故事發(fā)生的地點改在了淪爲殖民地之前的非洲。 The confusion was caused when two numbers were accidentally transposed by someone in the Social Security office . 這場混亂的起因是一個社會保障部門的職員無意中把兩個數字調換了位置。 music specialized to play or write a piece of music in a different key (= set of musical notes based on a particular note ) from the one used originally 使變調;使移調 The pianist transposed the song into C. 鋼琴家把這首歌改成了C調。 返回 transpose