3VERB 冒充;假裝 If you pose as someone, you pretend to be that person in order to deceive people. 冒充;假裝
The team posed as drug dealers to trap the ringleaders. [VERB + as]
該隊隊員裝扮成毒品販子,誘捕罪犯頭目。
4VERB 擺姿勢(以供人攝影或繪畫) If you pose for a photograph or painting, you stay in a particular position so that someone can photograph you or paint you. 擺姿勢(以供人攝影或繪畫)
Before going into their meeting the six foreign ministers posed for photographs. [VERB + for]
5VERB [usually cont]裝模作樣;裝腔作勢 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. 裝模作樣;裝腔作勢 [disapproval]
He criticized them for dressing outrageously and posing pretentiously. [VERB]
7N-COUNT 裝模作樣;裝腔作勢 A pose is an insincere or exaggerated way of behaving that is intended to make a particular impression on other people. 裝模作樣;裝腔作勢 [disapproval]
In many writers modesty is a pose, but in Ford it seems to have been genuine.