| 单词 | pose |
| 释义 | pose pose1 —posingly, adv. /pohz/, v. , posed, posing, n. v.i. 1. to assume a particular attitude or stance, esp. with the hope of impressing others: He likes to pose as an authority on literature. 2. to present oneself insincerely: He seems to be posing in all his behavior. 3. to assume or hold a physical attitude, as for an artistic purpose: to pose for a painter. v.t. 4. to place in a suitable position or attitude for a picture, tableau, or the like: to pose a group for a photograph. 5. to assert, state, or put forward: That poses a difficult problem. 6. to put or place. n. 7. a bodily attitude or posture: Her pose had a note of defiance in it. 8. a mental attitude or posture: a pose cultivated by the upper classes. 9. the act or period of posing, as for a picture. 10. a position or attitude assumed in posing, or exhibited by a figure in a picture, sculptural work, tableau, or the like. 11. a moment in which a dancer remains motionless, usually in an assumed posture. 12. a studied attitude; affectation: His liberalism is merely a pose. [1325-75; (v.) ME posen < MF poser < LL pausare to stop, cease, rest, deriv. of L pausa PAUSE; F poser has taken over the basic sense of L ponere "to put, place" and represents it in F borrowings of its prefixed derivatives (see COMPOSE, DEPOSE, etc.), prob. reinforced by the accidental resemblance of poser to positum, ptp. of ponere; (n.) deriv. of the v.] Syn. 3. sit, model. 7. See position. pose2 /pohz/, v.t., posed, posing. 1. to embarrass or baffle, as by a difficult question or problem. 2. Obs. to examine by putting questions. [1520-30; aph. var. of obs. appose, var. of OPPOSE, used in sense of L apponere to put to] |
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