3VERB 冒充;假装 If you pose as someone, you pretend to be that person in order to deceive people. 冒充;假装
The team posed as drug dealers to trap the ringleaders. [VERB + as]
该队队员装扮成毒品贩子,诱捕罪犯头目。
4VERB 摆姿势(以供人摄影或绘画) If you pose for a photograph or painting, you stay in a particular position so that someone can photograph you or paint you. 摆姿势(以供人摄影或绘画)
Before going into their meeting the six foreign ministers posed for photographs. [VERB + for]
5VERB [usually cont]装模作样;装腔作势 You can say that people are posing when you think that they are behaving in an insincere or exaggerated way because they want to make a particular impression on other people. 装模作样;装腔作势 [disapproval]
He criticized them for dressing outrageously and posing pretentiously. [VERB]
7N-COUNT 装模作样;装腔作势 A pose is an insincere or exaggerated way of behaving that is intended to make a particular impression on other people. 装模作样;装腔作势 [disapproval]
In many writers modesty is a pose, but in Ford it seems to have been genuine.