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1
- cause (two or more things) to change places with each other使(两个或以上的东西)互换位置; 使换位:
the situation might have been the same if the parties in opposition and government had been transposed.
如果反对党与政府位置互换一下, 情况可能还是一样。
2
- transfer to a different place or context转移, 迁移; 转换:
an evacuation order transposed the school from Kent to Shropshire
一道疏散令把学校从肯特郡迁到了什罗普郡
the themes are transposed from the sphere of love to that of work.
主题从爱情转到了工作。
2.1
- write or play (music) in a different key from the original使(音乐)变调, 移调:
the basses are transposed down an octave.
低音调低了一个八度。
2.2
- Mathematics transfer (a term), with its sign changed, to the other side of an equation【数】移(项)。
2.3
- translate into another language翻译:
a sequence of French tales transposed into English.
一组被译成英文的法国故事。
2.4
- change into a new form使变形, 转变, 使变化:
he transposed a gaffe by the mayor into a public-relations advantage.
他把市长的失态转变成了公关优势。
- Mathematics a matrix obtained from a given matrix by interchanging each row and the corresponding column【数】转置(矩)阵。
派生词
transposable
adjectivetransposal
nountransposer
noun词源
late Middle English (also in the sense 'transform, convert'): from Old French transposer, from trans- 'across' + poser 'to place'.